ITALIAN GARDEN ABOUT 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WESTONBIRT HOUSE, INCLUDING CAMELLIA HOUSE TO NORTH

ITALIAN GARDEN ABOUT 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WESTONBIRT HOUSE, INCLUDING CAMELLIA HOUSE TO NORTH, A433

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1235738
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: ITALIAN GARDEN ABOUT 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WESTONBIRT HOUSE, INCLUDING CAMELLIA HOUSE TO NORTH
Statutory Address:: ITALIAN GARDEN ABOUT 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WESTONBIRT HOUSE, INCLUDING CAMELLIA HOUSE TO NORTH, A433

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1235738
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: ITALIAN GARDEN ABOUT 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WESTONBIRT HOUSE, INCLUDING CAMELLIA HOUSE TO NORTH
Statutory Address 1:: ITALIAN GARDEN ABOUT 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WESTONBIRT HOUSE, INCLUDING CAMELLIA HOUSE TO NORTH, A433

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

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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:: ITALIAN GARDEN ABOUT 100 METRES SOUTH EAST OF WESTONBIRT HOUSE, INCLUDING CAMELLIA HOUSE TO NORTH, A433

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Cotswold (District Authority)
Parish:: Westonbirt with Lasborough
National Grid Reference:: ST 86606 89600

Details

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WESTONBIRT WITH LASBOROUGH A433 ST 88 NE (off south side) 10/179 Italian garden about 100m SE of Westonbirt House, induding Camellia House to North GV II*

the description shall be amended to read:

Very large formal garden approxiamately 85m by 65m, to south east of Westonbirt House (q.v.) and including Camellia House attached to north wall. End pavilions probably designed 1843 by Henry Edward Hamlen, the remainder possibly by Robert Stayner Holford himself. On south side to east and west ends, 2 large round-headed stone archways with shell crests flanking niches, obelisks and elaborate strapwork, lead into area of flower beds set in grass on 2 main levels with two planting bowls resembling fountains, rising up to north, enclosed to east and west by low moulded stone walls, and to north by tall rat-trap bond brick wall with closely set stone piers, large overhanging moulded stone cornice with supporting brackets on string course, with endpavilions and central arch leading to Camellia House. Between arches to south is central round pond with large grotesque fountain heads to each side. Pavilions in brick with elaborate strapwork stone dressings and ogee fish-scale tile domes; with archways on three sides and arched niches to north with ornamental stone seats, mosaic floor. Iron straps support the stonework as an integral part of the construction . Pavilion to east has additional bay to east with raised niche at east end probably originally for a sculpture. Central archway with square piers and triangular pediment with carved ornament above and below, over round-headed arch into small Camellia House of glass with ornamental iron structure resembling a hammerbeam roof with circular motifs. The garden is unaltered in its layout and is a good example of the fashions of the period. (James Lees-Milne, Country Life Vol 151, 1972)

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WESTONBIRT WITH A433 ST 88 NE LASBOROUGH (off south side) 10/179 Italian garden about l00m south east of Westonbirt House, including Camellia House to north II* GV

Very large formal garden approximately 85m by 65m, to south east of Westonbirt House (q.v.) and including Camellia House attached to north wall. End pavilions probably designed 1843 by Henry Edward Hamlen, the remainder possibly by Robert Stayner Holford himself. On south side to east and west ends, 2 large round-headed stone archways with shell crests flanking niches, obelisks and elaborate strapwork, lead into area of flower beds set in grass on 2 main levels, rising up to north, enclosed to east and west by low moulded stone walls, and to north by tall rat-trap bond brick wall with closely set stone piers, large overhanging moulded stone cornice with supporting brackets on string course, with end pavilions and central arch leading to Camellia House. Between arches to south is central round pond with large grotesque fountain heads to each side. Pavilions in brick with elaborate strapwork stone dressings and ogee fish-scale tile domes; with archways on three sides and arched niches to north with ornamental stone seats, mosaic floor. Iron straps support the stonework as an integral part of the construction. Pavilion to east has additional bay to east with raised niche at east end probably originally for a sculpture. Central archway with square piers and triangular pediment with carved ornament above and below, over round-headed arch into -small Camellia House of glass with ornamental iron structure resembling a hammerbeam roof with circular motifs. The garden is unaltered in its layout and is a good example of the fashions of the period. (James Lees-Milne, Country Life Vol 151, 1972)

Listing NGR: ST8660689600

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Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in Country Life, , Vol. 151, (1972)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 16 Gloucestershire,

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