Osborne Cottage Greenhouse, Covered Way to North, and Summerhouse
OSBORNE COTTAGE GREENHOUSE, COVERED WAY TO NORTH, AND SUMMERHOUSE, 184, YORK AVENUE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267002
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Osborne Cottage Greenhouse, Covered Way to North, and Summerhouse
- Statutory Address:
- OSBORNE COTTAGE GREENHOUSE, COVERED WAY TO NORTH, AND SUMMERHOUSE, 184, YORK AVENUE
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1267002
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-1972
- List Entry Name:
- Osborne Cottage Greenhouse, Covered Way to North, and Summerhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- OSBORNE COTTAGE GREENHOUSE, COVERED WAY TO NORTH, AND SUMMERHOUSE, 184, YORK AVENUE
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:
- OSBORNE COTTAGE GREENHOUSE, COVERED WAY TO NORTH, AND SUMMERHOUSE, 184, YORK AVENUE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Isle of Wight (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- East Cowes
- National Grid Reference:
- SZ 51080 95028
Details
YORK AVENUE 1. 5270 East Cowes No 184 (Osborne Cottage) Greenhouse, covered way to north, and Summerhouse SZ 59 NW 5/118 SZ 59 SW 7/118 25.1.72. II GV 2. 1856-7. Former residence of Princess Beatrice and her husband Prince Henry of Battenburg, at one time Governer of the Isle of Wight, 2 storey main block with single storey and attic L-plan wing to south. Stock brick with red brick banding and chequerwork. Main block has 3 gables to west and one over north and south sides. Plain bargeboards. Steep tiled roofs, Wooden bracketed rectangular bay windows on 1st floor with casement lights. Canted bay windows with central French casements on ground floor. The south wing has 2 projecting gabled bays, the 1st floor windows rectangular bays as on main block but with lattice glazing to casements. Tall brick banded chimney stacks. The north front of the main block has a 2-storey rectangular bay window in brick, beneath gable and wooden verandah across ground floor. Adjoining north front on the east side, is a good greenhouse. Three bays on square plan, articulated by slender cast iron colonettes up to three-quarter height, each bay of 6 vertical rectangular panes in width with fanlight above with circles in spandrels. The centre bay to west projects with iron cresting. Hipped glazed roof with upper stage and iron corner finials. The covered passageway extends from the greenhouse to the north and was built as a link with Albert Cottage (qv) to provide an all weather means of access for the Princesses. The section now belonging to Osborne Cottage extends down to the summerhouse or pavilion which is also part of the same property. Rendered brick walls, plinth, cornice and blocking course articulated by piers. Alternate bays have 3 light lozenge glazed casements lighting passage. The summerhouse or pavilion is octagonal and also rendered with pyramidal slate roof, the cornice broken forward from passageway around it. The interior has a dining room with thin Neo-Classical plaster-work on ceiling and wall panels. The staircase is cantilevered round a rectangular full height well lit by lantern with plaster dome. Scrolled iron balusters and to 1st floor landing. An open 3 bay gallery with fluted square section piers gives onto one side of well at 1st floor level. Elaborate scrolled newel at foot of stairs, surmounted by an elaborate brass lamp.
Listing NGR: SZ5108095028
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 420067
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 23 Isle of Wight,
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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