Summerhouse
SUMMERHOUSE, FAIRHOLME
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376786
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Summerhouse
- Statutory Address:
- SUMMERHOUSE, FAIRHOLME
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1376786
- Date first listed:
- 19-Dec-1997
- List Entry Name:
- Summerhouse
- Statutory Address 1:
- SUMMERHOUSE, FAIRHOLME
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:
- SUMMERHOUSE, FAIRHOLME
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Hounslow (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ0902173676
Details
TQ 07 SE FAIRHOLME
787/43/10043 Summerhouse
GV II
Summerhouse in centre of gardens: 1935 by T Cecil Howitt, as part of his Fairholme Estate of charitable housing. Timber-framed on York stone plinths, with brick infil nogging to gable ends and bellcast tiled roofs. The building forms an arch over the central path leading to the community centre. The gable ends have bargeboards carved with fruit and vines, and downcast finials. The sides open, the thick wall and sill plates linked by turned balusters as well as thick posts.
INTERIOR: a timber ceiling, and fixed seats the length of either side. The summerhouse is the most overtly picturesque of the elements of the Fairholme. In its mixture of vernacular and neo-Georgian elements, and in giving to Raymond Unwin's ideas of angled corners and open layouts a greater formality and a symmetrical nature, Fairholme is an excellent and well detailed example of the development of ideas on low-cost housing and town planning in the 1930s.
Listing NGR: TQ0902173676
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 469004
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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