Boat House at East End of Lake Approximately 300 Metres South of Sarsden House
BOAT HOUSE AT EAST END OF LAKE APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES SOUTH OF SARSDEN HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367833
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Boat House at East End of Lake Approximately 300 Metres South of Sarsden House
- Statutory Address:
- BOAT HOUSE AT EAST END OF LAKE APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES SOUTH OF SARSDEN HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1367833
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Boat House at East End of Lake Approximately 300 Metres South of Sarsden House
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOAT HOUSE AT EAST END OF LAKE APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES SOUTH OF SARSDEN 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:
- BOAT HOUSE AT EAST END OF LAKE APPROXIMATELY 300 METRES SOUTH OF SARSDEN HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sarsden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 29187 22705
Details
SARSDEN SP22SE 7/191 Boat house at E end of lake approx. 300m S of Sarsden House
- II
Boat house. Circa 1796 by Humphry Repton for John Langston. Boulder-faced sub-structure with wood superstructure and rubble projection to rear; stone slate roofs. Built in the form of a classical temple. Sub-structure has round-headed arch with voussoirs. 'Temple' above in the style of a distyle in antis portico of the Doric order with applied bark decoration to columns and antae; the columns wrapped round with diagonally placed iron bands. Round-headed arches to left and right with wood imposts and 'keystones'. Wooden bench to back with applied bark decoration above. Humphry Repton, who created the lake by which the boat house stands, presented a Red Book for improvements to Sarsden (including the lake) to John Langston in March 1796. From drawings in the RIBA drawings collection it appears that he originally intended the boat house to be of stone with Ionic columns but presumably this design was quickly substituted as there is no evidence to suggest that a stone boat house was ever built. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp752-3; Nigel Temple: 'Sarsden Oxfordshire'; Journal of Garden History: Vol.6, No.2 (1986), pp89-111 (esp.pp99-101); RIBA drawings collection: Cat., p.116 (31)) [2641]
Listing NGR: SP2918722705
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 254086
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 752 3
Garden History in Garden History, (1986)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
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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