Lower Indian Room
LOWER INDIAN ROOM
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251172
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Indian Room
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER INDIAN ROOM
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251172
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Indian Room
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER INDIAN ROOM
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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:
- LOWER INDIAN ROOM
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Tollard Royal
- National Grid Reference:
- ST 94265 16976
Details
ST 91 NW TOLLARD ROYAL LARMER GROUNDS (north side)
8/194 Lower Indian Room
GV II
Ornamental Indian pavilion. Rebuilt on present site c1880. Timber framed with lathe and plaster panels, asphalt hipped roof. Two- storey, open-fronted. Open front to ground floor with carved post to left of centre, carved double doors either side with carved wooden canopies. First floor has finely carved wooden frieze below horizontal sliding glazed windows, shuttered window to left, glazed fixed window to right, both in finely carved surrounds. Heavily carved brackets to deep eaves of shallow-pitched roof. Rear has 2- storey verandah on carved wooden posts, wooden steps to first floor and to raised ground floor. One of a group of Indian buildings erected by General Pitt-Rivers in the Larmer Grounds for recreational purposes and to illustrate an unfamiliar culture to the public who were invited to visit the gardens during the last two decades of C19. One of only two remaining Indian buildings in the Larmer Grounds. (N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Wiltshire, 1975; Unpublished notes of Mr. M. Pitt-Rivers).
Listing NGR: ST9426516976
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 320420
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975)
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.
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