GARDEN TEMPLE (KNOWN AS FANNYS BOWER) IN GROUNDS OF SALTRAM HOUSE

GARDEN TEMPLE (KNOWN AS FANNYS BOWER) IN GROUNDS OF SALTRAM HOUSE, MERAFIELD ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1386235
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
List Entry Name:: GARDEN TEMPLE (KNOWN AS FANNYS BOWER) IN GROUNDS OF SALTRAM HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GARDEN TEMPLE (KNOWN AS FANNYS BOWER) IN GROUNDS OF SALTRAM HOUSE, MERAFIELD ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1386235
Date first listed:: 01-May-1975
List Entry Name:: GARDEN TEMPLE (KNOWN AS FANNYS BOWER) IN GROUNDS OF SALTRAM HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GARDEN TEMPLE (KNOWN AS FANNYS BOWER) IN GROUNDS OF SALTRAM HOUSE, MERAFIELD ROAD

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:: GARDEN TEMPLE (KNOWN AS FANNYS BOWER) IN GROUNDS OF SALTRAM HOUSE, MERAFIELD ROAD

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

District:: City of Plymouth (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: SX5194055763

Details

PLYMOUTH

SX55NW 740-1/6/544 01/05/75

MERAFIELD ROAD (West side (off)) Plympton, Saltram Park Garden Temple (known as Fanny's Bower) in grounds of Saltram House

GV II*

Belvedere resembling a temple. Late C18, built for Parker. Dressed granite columns, otherwise stucco on rubble; dry slate roof. Shallow small rectangular plan with open colonnade at the front. Distyle-in-antae arrangement of Tuscan columns to the front with wider central bay; triangular pediment with moulded wooden cornice over a moulded entablature. INTERIOR: moulded plaster ceiling cornice with egg-and-dart enrichment.

Listing NGR: SX5194055763

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 473619
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.