The Bear's Hut 220 Metres North North West of Killerton House
THE BEAR'S HUT 220 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST OF KILLERTON HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1170706
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Bear's Hut 220 Metres North North West of Killerton House
- Statutory Address:
- THE BEAR'S HUT 220 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST OF KILLERTON HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1170706
- Date first listed:
- 20-May-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Bear's Hut 220 Metres North North West of Killerton House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE BEAR'S HUT 220 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST OF KILLERTON HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE BEAR'S HUT 220 METRES NORTH NORTH WEST OF KILLERTON HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- East Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Broad Clyst
- National Grid Reference:
- SS 97141 00154
Details
SX 99 NE BROADCLYST KILLERTON PARK
2/104 The Bear's Hut 220 metres north - north west of Killerton House
- II*
Summer house. Built before 1831. Split timbers under a hipped wheat reed thatched roof. Single storeyed; 3-bay front the centre projecting with window or oriel, on struts, 5 lights, with 16 leaded panes plus margin panes to each light, to the left of the entrance. One rear lancet window inserted into a massive hewn tree-trunk forms the 'east' window to a single-celled 'hermitage' in one of 3 internal divisions; 2 side windows to this tiny chapel, one of 2, the other of 3 lights, all ogee headed. The 3-light window retains its original chamfered jambs and mullions and some glazing bars. Interior: the 'hermitage' with a rustic wooden 'chancel arch', 'vaulted arch', 'vaulted apse' and 'sedilia', the whole roofed in deer skins, and floored in deers' knuckle-bones. The lancet window contains fragments of high-quality painted glass with a dated panel which reads: 'Reverendus adm : ac Amplisimus Dominus David Brockmans S.T.B.F. Decanns halselensis et peullis : Capituli inunsterblisiensis Canonicus necnon huius conventus confesarius. Anno 1696'. The other fragments consist of faces and bits of Latin block script. The central room, with corner fireplace, is lined and roofed in matting, and decorated with pine cones, the floor inlaid with oak tree-trunk sections. The right-hand room cobbled, with walls and roof of wicker work. Approached up a path of 4 steps. Note on dating : the Bear's Hut is illustrated in a set of drawings by John Gendall of Exeter of 1831 and is an interesting and eccentric early-C19 piece of picturesque rustic garden furniture,(fragments of Killerton). See Lady Ann Acland, Killerton (National -Trust, 1983) pp. 18-19.
Listing NGR: SS9714100154
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 88417
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Acland, A, Killerton, (1983), 18-19
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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