Summerhouse, about 120 metres south of Montacute House, and the row of 5 freestanding columns to east

Montacute House, The Borough, TA15 6XP

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1252027
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
List Entry Name:: Summerhouse, about 120 metres south of Montacute House, and the row of 5 freestanding columns to east
Statutory Address:: Montacute House, The Borough, TA15 6XP

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1252027
Date first listed:: 19-Apr-1961
Date of most recent amendment:: 27-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: Summerhouse, about 120 metres south of Montacute House, and the row of 5 freestanding columns to east
Statutory Address 1:: Montacute House, The Borough, TA15 6XP

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:: Montacute House, The Borough, TA15 6XP

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Montacute
National Grid Reference:: ST4990917027

Details

ST4917 7/133

MONTACUTE CP THE BOROUGH (North side, off) Summerhouse, about 120 metres south of Montacute House, and the row of 5 freestanding columns to east

(formerly listed as Garden House to south of Montacute House)

19.4.61

GV II Summerhouse. Dated 1588, but now probably mostly C20. Ham stone ashlar; bitumen felted lean-to roof behind parapet. Single-storey, three bays, facing north along the Cedar Lawn. Step base, moulded plinths, frieze and cornice with tryglyphs and panelled metopes, open balustrade with obelisk finials and false Dutch gable over central bay with coat of arms and incised date; arcade of three semi-circular arches with lozenge rustication: inside is a panelled dado, with shell-hood niches in east and west walls, plain flat ceiling.

Starting 5 metres east of summerhouse a row of five plain Tuscan columns on plinths, used as landscaping features. The Cedar Lawn, as it is now called, was formerly 'Pig's Wheatle Orchard', and was probably converted to garden proper in the mid C19; the C16 style facade of the summerhouse may actually date from Lord Curzon's tenancy in the early C20.

(Girouard, M and others, Montacute House, National Trust, 1985).

Listing NGR: ST4990917027

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Legacy System number:: 434955
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Girouard, M et al, Montacute House, (1985)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 37 Somerset,

Legal

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