Summerhouse in the Wilderness at SS2997326515
SUMMERHOUSE IN THE WILDERNESS AT SS2997326515
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317288
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Summerhouse in the Wilderness at SS2997326515
- Statutory Address:
- SUMMERHOUSE IN THE WILDERNESS AT SS2997326515
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1317288
- Date first listed:
- 19-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Summerhouse in the Wilderness at SS2997326515
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUMMERHOUSE IN THE WILDERNESS AT SS2997326515
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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 IN THE WILDERNESS AT SS2997326515
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- Torridge (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Clovelly
- National Grid Reference:
- SS2997326515
Details
CLOVELLY
SS 22 NE
SS 32 NW
2/96
CLOVELLY COURT PARK
Summerhouse in The Wilderness at SS2997326515
II
Summerhouse. Stone plaque on east walls inscribed: Built by Dame Diana Hamlyn 1820 Restored for Christine Hamlyn by friends and relations on her eightieth birthday 30 November 1935" further plaque: "Restored by A.W. H.G. in 1976 Non Fatuum Huc Perseculus Ignem". Coursed rubble walls, slate hung to south and west, low-pitched pyramidal slate roof with a large wooden cruciform finial. Small shaped wooden eaves cornice.
Plan: square on plan, built on the side of a steeply sloping hill with views out to sea; on south side an open verandah on a rubble plinth with stone sett pavement, roof over supported on four slender octagonal wooden columns. Gothick style. Single storey. Interior of a large single room.
Exterior: south elevation with central door and flanking two-light casements, overall an arcade of six-pointed arches, the door now missing and the windows and toplights with glazing missing. North elevation with a pointed-arch door opening with paired plank doors with Gothick cover moulds.
Interior: with plastered walls, tongue-and-groove boards to ceiling. Concrete floor renewed circa 1976. Set across three corners inside fixed wooden seats, set into two walls small cupboards in four-centred arch wooden surrounds, doors missing.
An unusual building, part of a romantic landscape created in a wooded valley on the edge of the sea.
Part of the landscaped park around Clovelly Court.
This entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 1 February 2017.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 91165
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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