THE RED SEAT

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1310099
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: THE RED SEAT
Statutory Address:: THE RED SEAT

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Date:: 2003-03-31
Reference:: IOE01/10058/29
Rights:: © Anne Newell. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1310099
Date first listed:: 26-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: THE RED SEAT
Statutory Address 1:: THE RED SEAT

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 RED SEAT

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Maker-with-Rame
National Grid Reference:: SX4576851828

Details

SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK

7/227 The Red Seat

GV II

Summer house, called the Red Seat or Kiosk. Circa 1836. Sandstone rubble. Single storey summer house with front viewing room and shallow rear room; roofless. Rectangular plan, about 4 metres by 1½ metres overall, with open front and sides. Front has arcade of 3 round arches with elliptical headed arch to left and right sides, 2 rectangular piers dividing front arches, front wall swept down to right and left. Granite seat along rear wall. Small room to rear. The Red Seat is one of the features of the Upper Zigzags, a system of formal paths terraced into the hillside and cliffs along the coast, approximately south/south east of Mount Edgcumbe House (q.v.). The Upper Zigzags are described in 1836, although they are shown on the map of 1756 (BM Plymouth 11 77).

Listing NGR: SX4576851828

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Legacy System number:: 61883
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 8 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly,

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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.