Summerhouse approximately 200 metres north west of Sandford Park

Sandford Park, Ledwell Road, Sandford St Martin, OX7 7AH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1368187
Date first listed:: 18-May-1987
List Entry Name:: Summerhouse approximately 200 metres north west of Sandford Park
Statutory Address:: Sandford Park, Ledwell Road, Sandford St Martin, OX7 7AH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1368187
Date first listed:: 18-May-1987
List Entry Name:: Summerhouse approximately 200 metres north west of Sandford Park
Statutory Address 1:: Sandford Park, Ledwell Road, Sandford St Martin, OX7 7AH

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:: Sandford Park, Ledwell Road, Sandford St Martin, OX7 7AH

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

County:: Oxfordshire
District:: West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Sandford St. Martin
National Grid Reference:: SP4180826812

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25/04/2018

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SANDFORD ST.MARTIN LEDWELL ROAD (West side) Summerhouse approximately 200 metres north west of Sandford Park

(Formerly listed under WORTON ROAD)

GV II* Summerhouse. Late C18. Timber with a Stonesfield slate cladding and roof. Back-to back three-quarter circular alcoves in Chinoiserie style. Front of each alcove has a round-headed archway below a shallow pediment, and has fretwork scrolls infilling the spandrels and pediment. The slate-clad sides are serpentine, and the roof is surmounted by a square cupola with Chinese-trellis balustrade, open fretwork frieze of bells and an ogee roof with wooden finial. Interior: each alcove has a wooden vault radiating from a central rosette, and is furnished with white Chinoiserie curved benches with trellis backs and foot rests.

Summerhouse stands between two lakes in the gardens of Sandford Park.

Listing NGR: SP4180826812

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 251983
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 751
Salzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Oxford, (1983), 173
'Country Life' in Country Life, (1940)
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.