UPPER GARDEN PAVILION AT WHINBURN

UPPER GARDEN PAVILION AT WHINBURN, HOLLINS LANE

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Garden Pavilion, 1922-23, original design by John Simpson & Maxwell Ayrton, modified by T.H. Mawson after construction. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392978
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-2008
List Entry Name:: UPPER GARDEN PAVILION AT WHINBURN
Statutory Address:: UPPER GARDEN PAVILION AT WHINBURN, HOLLINS LANE

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

There is a problem

Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1392978
Date first listed:: 11-Nov-2008
List Entry Name:: UPPER GARDEN PAVILION AT WHINBURN
Statutory Address 1:: UPPER GARDEN PAVILION AT WHINBURN, HOLLINS LANE

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: UPPER GARDEN PAVILION AT WHINBURN, HOLLINS LANE

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

District:: Bradford (Metropolitan Authority)
Parish:: Keighley
National Grid Reference:: SE 04896 42619

Reasons for Designation

The Upper Garden Pavilion at Whinburn is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It was designed by eminent London architects Simpson and Ayrton, with modifications by T Mawson, a landscape designer of the first quality * It incorporates some good architectural details in the Arts and Crafts vernacular tradition * It occupies an important position in the registered garden as redesigned by Simpson and Ayrton, and by T Mawson, providing views over the garden, house and surrounding countryside * The painted plaster ceiling is delicately executed and is an unusual feature for such a structure, adding individual interest to the building

Details

1772/0/10038 HOLLINS LANE 11-NOV-08 Upper Garden Pavilion at Whinburn

GV II Garden Pavilion, 1922-23, original design by John Simpson & Maxwell Ayrton, modified by T.H. Mawson after construction.

MATERIALS: coursed rubble with a stone slate roof.

PLAN: The pavilion is built on two levels on a steeply sloping site, and is square in form with a pyramidal roof with sprocketed eaves. The upper level is approached via external stone steps to the side, bounded by a low stone wall capped with flat stones.

The entrance, to the west (upslope) side, is a slightly recessed arch, and each of the other sides has a large rectangular window, originally with oak trellis, now lost. The interior has a stone flagged floor, and the plaster ceiling is decorated with a painted design of vines and grapes twining around a trellis. Inscribed in a beam over the door are the words A GARDEN IS A BEAUTIFUL BOOK/ WRIT BY THE FINGER OF GOD. Views are of the house to the left, grounds to the front and countryside to the right. At the lower level is a shallow recess, specified by Mawson to be "3' 0 deep to be as long as the thickness of side walls will allow". This has a haunched flat arch, and the remains of a painted frieze are visible around the top of the inside. Leading from the pavilion eastwards is the boundary wall of the estate, and further down the slope are several remaining pillars from a former pergola leading to a second smaller pavilion.

HISTORY: The garden at Whinburn was redesigned in conjunction with a major extension of the main house, in the years leading up to the First World War, having originally been established by the Prince Smith family in 1897. The family had made their money from the manufacture of machinery for the woollen industry. In 1912 they chose the London architects Simpson and Ayrton (designers of Wembley Stadium) to redesign and enlarge the house, and at the same time the garden was both extended and redesigned. The original designs for the Upper Garden Pavilion were amended after it was built by Mawson, whose firm also had a hand in the remodelling of the garden. Original drawings by Mawson survive, showing the adaptations he suggested. The garden was added to the Register as a Grade II designed landscape in 2002.

REASONS FOR DESIGNATION The Upper Garden Pavilion at Whinburn is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * It was designed by eminent London architects Simpson and Ayrton, with modifications by T Mawson, a landscape designer of the first quality * It incorporates some good architectural details in the Arts and Crafts vernacular tradition * It occupies an important position in the registered garden as redesigned by Simpson and Ayrton, and by T Mawson, providing views over the garden, house and surrounding countryside * The painted plaster ceiling is delicately executed and is an unusual feature for such a structure, adding individual interest to the building

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 504392
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.