SUMMERHOUSE ABOUT 70 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LISLE COMBE

SUMMERHOUSE ABOUT 70 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LISLE COMBE, UNDERCLIFFE DRIVE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1266084
Date first listed:: 08-Feb-1995
List Entry Name:: SUMMERHOUSE ABOUT 70 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LISLE COMBE
Statutory Address:: SUMMERHOUSE ABOUT 70 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LISLE COMBE, UNDERCLIFFE DRIVE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1266084
Date first listed:: 08-Feb-1995
List Entry Name:: SUMMERHOUSE ABOUT 70 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LISLE COMBE
Statutory Address 1:: SUMMERHOUSE ABOUT 70 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LISLE COMBE, UNDERCLIFFE DRIVE

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:: SUMMERHOUSE ABOUT 70 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LISLE COMBE, UNDERCLIFFE DRIVE

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

District:: Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ventnor
National Grid Reference:: SZ 54222 76708

Details

the following building shall be added:-

VENTNOR SZ57NW UNDERCLIFF DRIVE, St Lawrence 766-0/5/10002 Summerhouse about 70 metres south west of Lisle Combe

GV II

Summerhouse. Circa 1820's. Wooden and with stone rubble rear and east side walls. Slate roof with wooden pediments at ends. Rectangular plan Tetrastyle Doric temple with four unfluted wooden columns on the east end and five on the south side, the north and east being blind stone walls; wooden entablature with triglyphs in the frieze; large 12-pane sashes between the columns on the south side and half-glazed door at the centre of the west side. INTERIOR: Plain plastered interior; moulded window architraves. NOTE: The summerhouse was probably formerly in the grounds of The Cottage [qv], Sir Richard Worseley's marine residence. Lisle Coombe, in the grounds of which it now is, was built in about the 1820's, was associated with the Yarborough family and was the home, from 1930-59, of the poet and author Alfred Noyes, 1880-1959.

Listing NGR: SZ5422276708

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Legacy System:: LBS

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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.