The Tea House 50 Metres East of Chinese Temple and Connecting Tunnel to Egyptian Portal
THE TEA HOUSE 50 METRES EAST OF CHINESE TEMPLE AND CONNECTING TUNNEL TO EGYPTIAN PORTAL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189803
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Tea House 50 Metres East of Chinese Temple and Connecting Tunnel to Egyptian Portal
- Statutory Address:
- THE TEA HOUSE 50 METRES EAST OF CHINESE TEMPLE AND CONNECTING TUNNEL TO EGYPTIAN PORTAL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1189803
- Date first listed:
- 20-Mar-1974
- List Entry Name:
- The Tea House 50 Metres East of Chinese Temple and Connecting Tunnel to Egyptian Portal
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TEA HOUSE 50 METRES EAST OF CHINESE TEMPLE AND CONNECTING TUNNEL TO EGYPTIAN PORTAL
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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 TEA HOUSE 50 METRES EAST OF CHINESE TEMPLE AND CONNECTING TUNNEL TO EGYPTIAN PORTAL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Staffordshire
- District:
- Staffordshire Moorlands (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Biddulph
- National Grid Reference:
- SJ 89342 59149
Details
BIDDULPH C.P. BIDDULPH GRANGE SJ 85 NE SJ 8934 5914 7/16 The Tea House 50m east - of Chinese Temple and 20.3.74 connecting tunnel to Egyptian portal
GV II
Ornamental garden building: cottage orné and tunnel connecting to Egyptian portal (q.v.). Dated 1856. Rendered brickwork and some timber framing. Tiled roof with finials and cusped bargeboard; large side stack to right. Two-storey gabled frontage, built into embankment, painted to represent timber framing. 3-light casement window to corbelled first floor flanked by painted date and initialled over "M M". Loggia entrance with timber columns framing central round arch. Cottage also has access from rear at higher embankment level, with elevation in genuine timber framing. Forms termination of perimeter perambulation of garden commenced at Bateman's study. Interior: loggia enters short south arm of cruciform tunnel layout, this axis ends to north in boarded seating apse, east end (still within cottage ground floor) also apsidal contains over-life-sized sculpture of seated baboon; exit to north leads to upper level; the crossing has some mock bamboo-work walls and ceiling panels; the long west arm, which is a genuine tunnel, connects to the Egyptian portal (q.v.), thus continuing the sequential perambulation of the gardens, from the Chinese layout and the pinetum to the Wellingtonia Avenue.
Listing NGR: SJ8934259149
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 275221
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 38 Staffordshire,
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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