The Pyramid House
THE PYRAMID HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1367987
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- List Entry Name:
- The Pyramid House
- Statutory Address:
- THE PYRAMID HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1367987
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1957
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 29-Jun-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Pyramid House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE PYRAMID 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:
- THE PYRAMID HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Rousham
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 47936 24274
Details
ROUSHAM ROUSHAM PARK GARDENS SP4724 14/238 The Pyramid House 27/08/57 (Formerly listed under The Pyramid and Townsend's Building) GV II* Gazebo. c.1733-40, by William Kent. Ironstone ashlar; pyramidal mid/late C19 plain tile roof with finial. One storey. Semi-circular archway has imposts carried around flanking buttresses; Egyptian-style portrait relief in pediment above. Interior: 3 niches and 2 portrait reliefs. Built to provide view over River Cherwell towards eyecatchers in Steeple Aston parish. An unusual building, probably inspired by Vanbrugh's former pyramid at Stowe. Part of the landscape gardens laid out by William Kent between 1733 and 1740. (Rousham Park is included in the H.B.M.C. Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I; Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p746)
Listing NGR: SP4793624274
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 252894
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 746
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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