Mount Beacon House garden pavilion
Mount Beacon House garden pavilion, Richmond Hill, Bath
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1405925
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Beacon House garden pavilion
- Statutory Address:
- Mount Beacon House garden pavilion, Richmond Hill, Bath
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1405925
- Date first listed:
- 02-Dec-2011
- List Entry Name:
- Mount Beacon House garden pavilion
- Statutory Address 1:
- Mount Beacon House garden pavilion, Richmond Hill, Bath
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:
- Mount Beacon House garden pavilion, Richmond Hill, Bath
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Bath and North East Somerset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- ST7499066066
Summary
Garden pavilion, c1800, in the grounds of Mount Beacon House.
Reasons for Designation
* Architectural interest: an unusual example of a garden pavilion in the Neo-Classical style that is reminiscent of contemporary watchman's boxes;
* Group value: in the grounds of the Grade II Mount Beacon House.
History
An unusually ambitious garden pavilion in the Neo-classical manner, reminiscent of contemporary watchman's boxes.
Details
Garden pavilion in grounds of Mount Beacon House [qv] approx 3m north-west, c1800 with C20 addition.
EXTERIOR: limestone ashlar, with a flat roof behind pediments. Approximately 3m-square in plan. It has semicircular arched recesses to the sides and a fanlight with keystone to the south-east, and it has a continuous moulded impost cornice and frieze. It has a modern plank door and there are rusticated quoins; and a narrow cornice encircles the building below the pediments.
INTERIOR: not inspected.
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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