Kings Hill Gazebo (S 186)
KINGS HILL GAZEBO (S 186), SOUTH YARD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388430
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Hill Gazebo (S 186)
- Statutory Address:
- KINGS HILL GAZEBO (S 186), SOUTH YARD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1388430
- Date first listed:
- 13-Aug-1999
- List Entry Name:
- Kings Hill Gazebo (S 186)
- Statutory Address 1:
- KINGS HILL GAZEBO (S 186), SOUTH YARD
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:
- KINGS HILL GAZEBO (S 186), SOUTH YARD
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:
- SX 45164 54042
Details
SX 4554 SW PLYMOUTH SOUTH YARD, Devonport Dockyard
740-1/98/213 Kings Hill gazebo (5 186)
GV II*
Gazebo. 1822. Rendered wood frame with a swept conical metal sheet roof. Single-room plan with 4 concave sides. EXTERIOR: single storey; 4-bay range. Gazebo has steeply concave sides and 8 timber fluted Doric columns to a circular entablature with shallow modillions, S clock, inscribed "TO PERPETUATE THE RECOLLECTION OF THE VISIT OF HIS MAJESTY GEORGE III OF BLESSED AND GLORIOUS MEMORY, AND OF HIS MAJESTY'S ADMIRATION OF THE ROCK ON WHICH IT STANDS, AND THE SCENE AROUND. THIS BUILDING WAS ERECTED IN THE YEAR 1822". French doors in each side have margin panes. The Kings Hill partly built up of large rubble blocks, has a statue of a female figure flanked by niches and with an iron cover over on the SE side.
INTERIOR: plain octagonal interior. HISTORY: built to commemorate a visit by George III, on a piece of land left isolated by excavation for the South Yard, and indicating the former topography of the area. Part of a group with the gate and railings (qv) surrounding the hill, with a winding pebbled path.
(Source: The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1989: 652).
Listing NGR: SX4516454042
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 476441
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Devon North, (1952), 652
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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