GAZEBO AT ROSEMOOR GARDENS

GAZEBO AT ROSEMOOR GARDENS, B3220

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271247
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-2000
List Entry Name:: GAZEBO AT ROSEMOOR GARDENS
Statutory Address:: GAZEBO AT ROSEMOOR GARDENS, B3220

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1271247
Date first listed:: 04-Aug-2000
List Entry Name:: GAZEBO AT ROSEMOOR GARDENS
Statutory Address 1:: GAZEBO AT ROSEMOOR GARDENS, B3220

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:: GAZEBO AT ROSEMOOR GARDENS, B3220

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

County:: Devon
District:: Torridge (District Authority)
Parish:: St. Giles in the Wood
National Grid Reference:: SS5011817688

Details

SS51NW 852/7/10002 04-AUG-00

GREAT TORRINGTON B3220 Gazebo at Rosemoor Gardens

II

Gazebo. Circa mid C18, possibly 1752, the date of Palmer House where it was formerly situated; re-erected 1999. Rendered stone rubble, slate-hung first floor. Hipped slate roof with lead rolls to hips, and small ball finial and wrought-iron weather-vane at apex. Stack at side with short brick shaft. PLAN: Octagonal on plan with flight of steps at rear to heated first floor room. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Front has canted window on first floor with three 12-pane sashes with thick glazing bars and small window on ground floor. At rear, stone stairs with restored iron balustrade to first floor doorway with panelled door and restored wooden porch; renewed 12-pane sashes on first floor to left and right of doorway. INTERIOR: Small stone fireplace with slate hearth and flanking china cupboards with panelled doors; panelling below bay window and moulded dado rail. NOTE: This gazebo was formerly situated at Palmer House, New Street, Great Torrington, and was re-erected on its present site at Rosemoor Gardens in 1999. Palmer House was built for [Sir] John Palmer, brother-in-law of Sir Joshua Reynolds, who visited the house together with Dr Johnson. SOURCE: Buildings of England, p.461-2.

Listing NGR: SS5011817688

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 487087
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 461-2

Legal

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