GRANNY'S SUMMERHOUSE

GRANNY'S SUMMERHOUSE, CHARLECOTE PARK

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381807
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:: GRANNY'S SUMMERHOUSE
Statutory Address:: GRANNY'S SUMMERHOUSE, CHARLECOTE PARK

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1381807
Date first listed:: 18-Mar-1997
List Entry Name:: GRANNY'S SUMMERHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GRANNY'S SUMMERHOUSE, CHARLECOTE PARK

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:: GRANNY'S SUMMERHOUSE, CHARLECOTE PARK

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

County:: Warwickshire
District:: Stratford-on-Avon (District Authority)
Parish:: Charlecote
National Grid Reference:: SP 25972 56490

Details

CHARLECOTE

SP2556 CHARLECOTE PARK 1901-1/10/24 Granny's Summerhouse 18/03/97

GV II

Summerhouse. Mid C19. For Mary Elizabeth Lucy. Small L-plan single-storey structure. Brick with applied rustic timbering; thatch roof and brick end stack. EXTERIOR: canted west gable end has rustic timber surrounds to openings; segmental-headed entrance with paired bark-panelled doors; flanking lights with stained glass with dates: 1826 and 1828. South front has canted bay window with gablet and wood lattice glazing to right of small window with stained glass; small cast-iron edging to narrow flower beds. East return has gabled bay containing aviary with bark cladding below openings with meshed frame to front and projecting side nest boxes; stained-glass window to rear. North front has wing with detached stack to left of oriel-like timber projection. INTERIOR: reused timber fielded panelling, decorative woodwork and stained glass throughout; 2 rooms with canted ceilings. Hall has mirrored cupboard doors; segmental arch to main room, which has fireplace and overmantel. HISTORY: the house was built for Lady Mary Elizabeth Lucy's children and was modelled on Plas Newydd, Llangollen, the home of Lady Eleanor Butler and Hon. Sarah Ponsonby, whom Lady Mary Elizabeth Lucy visited when a child. Property of the National Trust. (The National Trust: Charlecote Park: 1991-: 45).

Listing NGR: SP2597256490

Legacy

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Legacy System number:: 482171
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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Charlecote Park, (1991), 45

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.