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:: 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

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.