Summerhouse Approximately 120 Metres South-west of Wood House
SUMMERHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF WOOD HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1326114
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Summerhouse Approximately 120 Metres South-west of Wood House
- Statutory Address:
- SUMMERHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF WOOD HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1326114
- Date first listed:
- 04-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Summerhouse Approximately 120 Metres South-west of Wood House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUMMERHOUSE APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF WOOD HOUSE
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.
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 APPROXIMATELY 120 METRES SOUTH-WEST OF WOOD HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Devon
- District:
- West Devon (District Authority)
- Parish:
- South Tawton
- National Grid Reference:
- SX6531895927
Details
SX 69 NE SOUTH TAWTON
1/184 Summerhouse approximately 120
metres south-west of Wood House
GV II*
Summerhouse. 1899-1905 by Thomas Mawson. Partly-roughcast granite stone rubble
laid to rough courses with dressed granite quoins and granite ashlar detail;
probably Cotswold stone slab roof.
Plan: Summerhouse built up the hillslope from and facing Wood House (q.v.) to the
north-east. It comprises a single room with right lateral stack and left bay window
built at right angles to rear of the centre of a semi-circular roofed arcade. At
each end the last bay has probably always been enclosed but in the mid C17 these
have been converted to service rooms.
Exterior: curving arcade is supported on a series of turned monolithic granite
Tuscan posts, the outer end bays defined by square section posts and infilled with
C20 walls. The end walls are granite and each contains a round-headed niche with
eared architrave around. The roof is hipped each end and has a decorated lead
gutter. At the back, in the centre are pairs of posts in front of the doorway to
the Summerhouse room. The bay window here is granite-mullioned in the same style as
the house and contains rectangular panes of leaded glass.
Interior: finished to the same standard as the main house. The granite ashlar
fireplace has a cable-moulded surround, so too do-the 2 round-headed alcoves of the
granite chimneypiece. The lintel is carved with a Latin inscription. The room is
lined with fielded panel oak wainscotting and above the dado are panels with moulded
plaster architraves. Coved plaster cornice and the ceiling of the bay is enriched
with ornamental plasterwork in the Jacobean vernacular style.
This summerhouse is part of an extensive landscaping scheme conceived by Mawson to
go with the rebuilding of Wood House (q.v.). Mawson himself considered the whole
scheme as one of his major achievements.
Source: T H Mawson The Art and Craft of Garden Making, (5th edition) includes
copious notes and illustrations of Wood House.
Listing NGR: SX6531895927
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 94981
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Mawson, T H, The Art and Craft of Garden Making, (1907)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 11 Devon,
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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