Shell Summerhouse, 70 Metres North West of Nettlestead Chace
SHELL SUMMERHOUSE, 70 METRES NORTH WEST OF NETTLESTEAD CHACE, HALL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262717
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Shell Summerhouse, 70 Metres North West of Nettlestead Chace
- Statutory Address:
- SHELL SUMMERHOUSE, 70 METRES NORTH WEST OF NETTLESTEAD CHACE, HALL LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262717
- Date first listed:
- 24-Jan-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Shell Summerhouse, 70 Metres North West of Nettlestead Chace
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHELL SUMMERHOUSE, 70 METRES NORTH WEST OF NETTLESTEAD CHACE, HALL LANE
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:
- SHELL SUMMERHOUSE, 70 METRES NORTH WEST OF NETTLESTEAD CHACE, HALL LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- Mid Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Nettlestead
- National Grid Reference:
- TM0891149311
Details
TM 04 NE
6/130
NETTLESTEAD
HALL LANE
Shell Summerhouse, 70 metres north-west of Nettlestead Chace
II
Shell summerhouse in the garden of Nettlestead Chace. Early C19, perhaps
c.1800. Octagonal plan, about 2.5m diameter. Timber-framed with wattle and
daub clad in rustic half-logs. Conical thatched roof with finial at apex.
One wall-face and two flanking half-faces are open; the other walls have
internal fixed wooden benches. The ceiling is of octagonal pyramid form
beneath the rafters; it has panels of yellow, grey and pink coarse plaster, in
fans and other geometrical shapes, delicately outlined with borders of mainly
whelk shells. The effect is of a rustic form of domestic ceiling in the Adam
manner. Other types of shells are embedded in the plaster within the panels,
including cockles, oysters, limpets and the occasional conch or coral.
Although repaired after storm and bomb damage, the integrity of the
summerhouse is little impaired.
Listing NGR: TM0891149311
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433502
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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