BOATHOUSE AND COVERED BRIDGE AT LONGLEAT HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1200450
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1968
List Entry Name:: BOATHOUSE AND COVERED BRIDGE AT LONGLEAT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: BOATHOUSE AND COVERED BRIDGE AT LONGLEAT HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1200450
Date first listed:: 11-Sep-1968
List Entry Name:: BOATHOUSE AND COVERED BRIDGE AT LONGLEAT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: BOATHOUSE AND COVERED BRIDGE AT LONGLEAT HOUSE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: BOATHOUSE AND COVERED BRIDGE AT LONGLEAT HOUSE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Horningsham
National Grid Reference:: ST 80903 43138

Details

ST 84 SW, 2/140

HORNINGSHAM, LONGLEAT PARK (north side), Boathouse and covered bridge at Longleat House

(formerly listed as boat house at Longleat House)

11.09.68

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Boathouse with covered bridge over inlet of Half Mile Pond. Circa 1807 by Jeffry Wyatville for 2nd Marquess of Bath. Limestone ashlar, Welsh slate hipped roof. Segmental moulded archway to wet dock, covered bridge over with balustraded parapet and glazed round-arched opening, 6-pane fixed window either side and strapwork panel over, flanking Doric pilasters to entablature and blocking course with corner urns. Double-glazed doors with Doric pilasters open onto bridge. Either side of bridge are ashlar-faced walls of boathouse with blind architrave to right and studded door to left, leading to boathouse. To rear is partly enclosed wet dock, boathouse has open front with trellis, semi-circular parapet to edge of wet dock. Left return is ashlar faced with corniced blocking course. Interior of bridge has stone floor, large round-arched recess flanked by square-headed recesses, strapwork panels and plaster ceiling with rosettes. Part of Wyatville's additions and improvements to buildings in the park, Humphry Repton was also involved in the landscaping and deepened Half Mile Pond and formed the island. (D. Burnett, Longleat, 1978; Red Book by Repton and original plans, Longleat Archives.)

Listing NGR: ST8090343138

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 313361
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Burnett, D, Longleat, (1978)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 46 Wiltshire,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.