THE LITTLE TEMPLE APPROXIMATELY 130 METRES SOUTH WEST OF DITCHLEY HOUSE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262764
Date first listed:: 30-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: THE LITTLE TEMPLE APPROXIMATELY 130 METRES SOUTH WEST OF DITCHLEY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: THE LITTLE TEMPLE APPROXIMATELY 130 METRES SOUTH WEST OF DITCHLEY HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262764
Date first listed:: 30-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:: THE LITTLE TEMPLE APPROXIMATELY 130 METRES SOUTH WEST OF DITCHLEY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: THE LITTLE TEMPLE APPROXIMATELY 130 METRES SOUTH WEST OF DITCHLEY HOUSE

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:: THE LITTLE TEMPLE APPROXIMATELY 130 METRES SOUTH WEST OF DITCHLEY HOUSE

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Spelsbury
National Grid Reference:: SP3889121111

Details

SPELSBURY DITCHLEY PARK SP32SE 8/172 The Little Temple approx. 130m SW of Ditchley House

GV II

Garden temple. Mid/late C18 for the Earls of Litchfield, re-sited c.1935 by Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe for Ronald and Nancy Tree. Limestone. Rectangular summerhouse, with a canted Venetian window in the rear wall, has an C18 stone doorway, with a moulded architrave and entablature with pulvinated frieze, flanked by oval plaster reliefs. Stone tetrastyle Tuscan portico has a triangular pediment and ball finials. Interior: a marble tablet records the temple restoration in memory of R.L. Tree (1897-1976). (Ditchley Park is included in the English Heritage Historic Gardens Register at Grade II*)

Listing NGR: SP3889121111

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Legacy System number:: 434127
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire

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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.