STONE SHELTER WITH SEAT TO EAST OF SUNKEN GARDEN AT WESTONBIRT HOUSE

STONE SHELTER WITH SEAT TO EAST OF SUNKEN GARDEN AT WESTONBIRT HOUSE, A433

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1235874
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: STONE SHELTER WITH SEAT TO EAST OF SUNKEN GARDEN AT WESTONBIRT HOUSE
Statutory Address:: STONE SHELTER WITH SEAT TO EAST OF SUNKEN GARDEN AT WESTONBIRT HOUSE, A433

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1235874
Date first listed:: 16-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: STONE SHELTER WITH SEAT TO EAST OF SUNKEN GARDEN AT WESTONBIRT HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: STONE SHELTER WITH SEAT TO EAST OF SUNKEN GARDEN AT WESTONBIRT HOUSE, A433

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:: STONE SHELTER WITH SEAT TO EAST OF SUNKEN GARDEN AT WESTONBIRT HOUSE, 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 86688 89573

Details

WESTONBIRT WITH A433 ST 88 NE LASBOROUGH (off south side) 10/180 Stone shelter with seat to east of sunken garden at Westonbirt House GV II

Large ornamental stone shelter with wooden seat and flanking attached low walls. c1860s, possibly by Lewis Vulliamy. Overhanging cornice with small shell niche patterns, moulded ceiling with roundels and carved cones hanging down in form of fan vaulting, the whole supported on sides of seat by huge elaborate stone scrolls. Three arched shallow recesses to rear with decoration in fired clay, decorative tile floor. Low moulded walls sweep out in 2 quadrants, with similar short piece of wall opposite on edge of sunken garden to west with round pool and bronze statue of Mercury in centre.

Listing NGR: ST8668889573

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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.