Summerhouse 15 Metres South West of Lavengro (Lavengro Not Included)
SUMMERHOUSE 15 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LAVENGRO (LAVENGRO NOT INCLUDED), BOATHOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279935
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Summerhouse 15 Metres South West of Lavengro (Lavengro Not Included)
- Statutory Address:
- SUMMERHOUSE 15 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LAVENGRO (LAVENGRO NOT INCLUDED), BOATHOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1279935
- Date first listed:
- 21-Jun-1993
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jul-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Summerhouse 15 Metres South West of Lavengro (Lavengro Not Included)
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUMMERHOUSE 15 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LAVENGRO (LAVENGRO NOT INCLUDED), BOATHOUSE LANE
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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:
- SUMMERHOUSE 15 METRES SOUTH WEST OF LAVENGRO (LAVENGRO NOT INCLUDED), BOATHOUSE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Oulton Broad
- National Park:
- The Broads
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 50982 92860
Details
TM 59 SW LOWESTOFT BOATHOUSE LANE, Oulton Broad
(south east side)
914-1/3/98
Summerhouse 15m SW of
Lavengro. (Lavengro not
included)
21/06/93
II
Summerhouse. c1830, altered. Timber-framed and weatherboarded on brick plinth. Brick extension to west c1850. Late C20 felt roof. Square plan with chamfered comers, to appear octagonal. Ha1f-glazed doors in south-east and north-east chamfered, replaced windows to south. pyramid roof terminating in a small octagonal lantern. Historic association with George Borrow (1803 -1881), who lived at Oulton Cottage 1840 -53 and 1874 -81, dying in Oulton Cottage 1881. The summerhouse was his study. The novel "Lavengro", published 1851, written entirely within this building. Oulton Cottage was demolished after 1885 and a new house was built called Lavengro, which is not included. (Bunn, Ivan: George Borrow's Oulton; Oulton: 1981).
Listing NGR: TM5098292860
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 391274
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Bunn, I, George Borrows Oulton, (1981)
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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