Summerhouse Approximately 75 Metres to South West of Stokecliff
SUMMERHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 75 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF STOKECLIFF, SWANNATON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217976
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Summerhouse Approximately 75 Metres to South West of Stokecliff
- Statutory Address:
- SUMMERHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 75 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF STOKECLIFF, SWANNATON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1217976
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 23-Feb-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Summerhouse Approximately 75 Metres to South West of Stokecliff
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUMMERHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 75 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF STOKECLIFF, SWANNATON ROAD
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:
- SUMMERHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 75 METRES TO SOUTH WEST OF STOKECLIFF, SWANNATON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- South Hams (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Dartmouth
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 87984 50558
Details
DARTMOUTH
SX8750 SWANNATON ROAD 673-1/6/250 (South West side) 19/02/90 Summerhouse approximately 75 metres to south-west of Stokecliff (Formerly Listed as: SWANNATON ROAD Summerhouse about 60 metres south west of Stoke Cliff)
GV II
Summerhouse, called "the temple" by the residents of Stokecliff. c1820-30. Plastered stone rubble, roof material has gone. PLAN: Terraced into steep hillside, the back part enclosed by stone walls, the front part open like a simple portico in antis. EXTERIOR: Built to resemble a classical temple. Roman Doric style. The front is an open 3-bay colonnade of timber columns (in August 1990, the outer 2 had collapsed and the middle 2 were leaning) to a Doric frieze with mutules, triglyphs and the rest under a false pediment, the front gable end of the roof. The roof has no cladding. INTERIOR: The plastered stone walls contain a series of round-headed niches, 3 on the back wall and one to each side wall. These could have been used for statues or night lights. There is the remains of an old wooden bench, probably not an original feature. Boarded common rafter roof.
Listing NGR: SX8798450558
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 387360
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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