Summerhouse About 450 Metres North North East of Stratfield Saye House
SUMMERHOUSE ABOUT 450 METRES NORTH NORTH EAST OF STRATFIELD SAYE HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326256
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Summerhouse About 450 Metres North North East of Stratfield Saye House
- Statutory Address:
- SUMMERHOUSE ABOUT 450 METRES NORTH NORTH EAST OF STRATFIELD SAYE HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1326256
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Summerhouse About 450 Metres North North East of Stratfield Saye House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUMMERHOUSE ABOUT 450 METRES NORTH NORTH EAST OF STRATFIELD SAYE 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 ABOUT 450 METRES NORTH NORTH EAST OF STRATFIELD SAYE HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- Basingstoke and Deane (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Stratfield Saye
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 70263 61968
Details
The following building shall be added:-
STRATFIELD SAYE SU76SW STRATFIELD SAYE PARK 289-0/3/10006 Summerhouse about 450 metres NNE of Stratfield Saye House
GV II
Garden summerhouse. Dated 1846. Built for the first Duke of Wellington. Timber-framed, clad in boards and faced in rustic sticks forming patterns. Gabled roof covered in metal or asbestos sheets. Rectangular plan, open at front and rear and divided into two compartments. Designed in the form of a little temple. Arcaded 3-bay front and rear with thin polygonal columns, segmental arches and pedimental gable, one gable with rusticwork pierced and shaped bargeboards, the other with bargeboards replaced by sections of bark under the verges. INTERIOR: Rusticwork patterns on wall benches and elaborate rusticwork patterns on the walls and ceiling and with date 1846 and Royal Crown and inscription 'Dieu et Mon Droit' and the Ducal coronet with the family motto 'Vertutis Fortuna Comes'. HISTORY: The summerhouse was built by the first Duke of Wellington in 1846 to commemorate a visit to Stratfield Saye by Queen Victoria.
Listing NGR: SU6820761198
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 354789
- 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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