Real Tennis Court Remains About 100 Metres North East of Stowe Barton and Wall to East
REAL TENNIS COURT REMAINS ABOUT 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF STOWE BARTON AND WALL TO EAST
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230425
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Real Tennis Court Remains About 100 Metres North East of Stowe Barton and Wall to East
- Statutory Address:
- REAL TENNIS COURT REMAINS ABOUT 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF STOWE BARTON AND WALL TO EAST
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1230425
- Date first listed:
- 09-Sept-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Real Tennis Court Remains About 100 Metres North East of Stowe Barton and Wall to East
- Statutory Address 1:
- REAL TENNIS COURT REMAINS ABOUT 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF STOWE BARTON AND WALL TO EAST
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:
- REAL TENNIS COURT REMAINS ABOUT 100 METRES NORTH EAST OF STOWE BARTON AND WALL TO EAST
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Kilkhampton
- National Grid Reference:
- SS2144011297
Details
SS 21 SW KILKHAMPTON
3/14 Real tennis court remains about
- 100 metres north east of Stowe
Barton and wall to east
- II
Remains of real tennis court, partly used as shippon. Late C17. Associated with
Stowe, built for John Grenville, Earl of Bath, in 1679. English bond local brick,
some polyphant stones. 3 sides of a rectangle in brick walling, the dimensions
correspond to the area of a real tennis court, 29.3 x 9.8 metres. Further wall,
about 4 metres distant from north wall probably the inner wall forming the side and
service penthouses, sloping slate roof across the north and inner wall forms
present shippon. South wall has moulded polyphant stones at base on inner side.
Remains of cement floor. The tennis court is referred to in Charles Kingsley's
Westward Ho! (1855) Chap.VII, where it is mentioned that since the demolition of
Stowe in 1739 "the stables have become a farmhouse, the tennis-court a sheep-cote".
Listing NGR: SS2144011297
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 64823
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Kingsley, C, Westward Ho, (1855)
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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