KENT SEAT AT NO 24

KENT SEAT AT NO 24, CLEEVE LAWNS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389429
Date first listed:: 13-Sep-2001
List Entry Name:: KENT SEAT AT NO 24
Statutory Address:: KENT SEAT AT NO 24, CLEEVE LAWNS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1389429
Date first listed:: 13-Sep-2001
List Entry Name:: KENT SEAT AT NO 24
Statutory Address 1:: KENT SEAT AT NO 24, CLEEVE LAWNS

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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Location

Statutory Address:: KENT SEAT AT NO 24, CLEEVE LAWNS

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

District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Downend and Bromley Heath
National Grid Reference:: ST6499977317

Details

MANGOTSFIELD RURAL

980/0/10098 CLEEVE LAWNS 13-SEP-01 Downend 24 Kent Seat

II

Kent Seat in rear garden of 24 Cleeve Lawns, Downend, Mangotsfield, South Gloucs.

Wooden alcove or garden seat. C.1750, attributed to Thomas Wright of Durham. Timber, painted, on a cement-rendered base with Pennant stone paving, zinc roof covering. Semi-octagonal west-facing structure with pedimented fa?ade with latticed decoration; ogee arched opening rises from imposts. Interior retains dentil cornice, panelled walls and seat. HISTORY: associated with Thomas Wright of Durham's work for the owner of Cleve Hill House, the now-demolished house in the former grounds of which this structure stands. A garden plan for the estate (now in the Victoria & Albert Museum) was prepared for the owner, Charles Bragge, in the 1750s. Structures such as this take their generic name from William Kent, the architect and designer, who originated this alcove type at Rousham Park, Oxon. in the late 1730s. Listed as a rare survival of this inherently fragile sort of garden structure.

[Report by Laurie Bingle and James Russell for the Bristol and Avon Archaeological Society, 2000].

Listing NGR: ST6499977317

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Legacy System number:: 488088
Legacy System:: LBS

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Bingle and Russell, [Report], (2001)

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