GAZEBO AT BIDDESDEN HOUSE

GAZEBO AT BIDDESDEN HOUSE, BIDDESDEN LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1364563
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: GAZEBO AT BIDDESDEN HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GAZEBO AT BIDDESDEN HOUSE, BIDDESDEN LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1364563
Date first listed:: 13-Jun-1988
List Entry Name:: GAZEBO AT BIDDESDEN HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GAZEBO AT BIDDESDEN HOUSE, BIDDESDEN LANE

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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Location

Statutory Address:: GAZEBO AT BIDDESDEN HOUSE, BIDDESDEN LANE

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ludgershall
National Grid Reference:: SU 29336 50999

Details

LUDGERSHALL BIDDESDEN LANE SU 25 SE (north side) 9/232 Gazebo at Biddesden House II

Gazebo. c1933, by George Kennedy. Importantly situated on hilltop. Flint with brick dressings, tiled roof. Rectangular chamber with rectangular tower set on skew on southside, all overlooking swimming pool to west. Entrance from fruit garden to east. Stone oriel window with columns and parapet, and concealed sashes, and sash window with segmental head. Tower has copper dome with large knob. Interior of tower has niches with mosaics of the three muses, Erato, Clio and Thalia, and mosaic dome and floor, all by Boris Anrep. Main chamber has painting by Roland Pym, a marble naked Venus by E. Gazzeri from Rome and a verde antico young Apollo as hunter.

Listing NGR: SU2933650999

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Legacy System number:: 312440
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.