The Turkey Building
THE TURKEY BUILDING
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332828
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Turkey Building
- Statutory Address:
- THE TURKEY BUILDING
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1332828
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1985
- List Entry Name:
- The Turkey Building
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE TURKEY BUILDING
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:
- THE TURKEY BUILDING
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Wotton Underwood
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 68356 16768
Details
SP 61 NE WOTTON UNDERWOOD WOTTON HOUSE
3/177 The Turkey Building
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- II
Garden pavilion, 1750s, but much rebuilt, most recently circa 2000.
Wooden building in oriental style. Semi-octagonal with 3 open sides
and lath and plaster rear wall. Each corner has cluster of slender shafts
with moulded capitals, on plinths with moulded cornices. Altered
entablature has wrought iron scroll brackets and wooden frieze
pierced with geometric patterns. Stone flag floor. Tented copper roof
with crescent moon finial.
Illustrated in Country Life 1949 July 8th.
The historic designed landscape surrounding an early-C18 country house, with a contemporary layout, probably by George London and Henry Wise, developed into an extensive mid-C18 park for George Grenville by Lancelot Brown; William Pitt, later first Earl of Chatham, is credited with significant input with regard to the design.
Listing NGR: SP6854116191
The List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 10 August 2016 as part of the tercentenary celebrations of Lancelot Capability Brown's birth.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 42564
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire, (1994), 764-7
Lysons, Reverend D, Lysons, S, Magna Britannia, (1813)
Country Life in Country Life, (1949)
Phipps, J L, Wotton Underwood: A survey of the landscape, (1999)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 4 Buckinghamshire,
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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