COWPER'S SUMMERHOUSE (IN GARDEN OF COWPER AND NEWTON MUSEUM)

COWPER'S SUMMERHOUSE (IN GARDEN OF COWPER AND NEWTON MUSEUM), MARKET PLACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1332285
Date first listed:: 06-May-1983
List Entry Name:: COWPER'S SUMMERHOUSE (IN GARDEN OF COWPER AND NEWTON MUSEUM)
Statutory Address:: COWPER'S SUMMERHOUSE (IN GARDEN OF COWPER AND NEWTON MUSEUM), MARKET PLACE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1332285
Date first listed:: 06-May-1983
List Entry Name:: COWPER'S SUMMERHOUSE (IN GARDEN OF COWPER AND NEWTON MUSEUM)
Statutory Address 1:: COWPER'S SUMMERHOUSE (IN GARDEN OF COWPER AND NEWTON MUSEUM), MARKET PLACE

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:: COWPER'S SUMMERHOUSE (IN GARDEN OF COWPER AND NEWTON MUSEUM), MARKET PLACE

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

District:: Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Olney
National Grid Reference:: SP 88997 51204

Details

OLNEY MARKET PLACE SP 8891 1/97 (south side) Cowper's Summerhouse (in garden of Cowper and Newton Museum) II Probably mid C18. Tiny structure, rendered with tiled roof, copy of original oak door, (now in the museum), sash window in rear wall, oval window in east gable, built-in benches inside. Used by Cowper as a retreat and for writing. 'John Gilpin' and most of 'The Task' were written here.

Listing NGR: SP8899751204

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Legacy System number:: 45768
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.