Building record 1233401003 - PERGOLA & PAVILION, DROPMORE

Summary

Nineteenth century garden pergola and pavilion at Dropmore

Protected Status/Designation

  • Listed Building (II) 1165871: PERGOLA WITH PAVILION AT END, DROPMORE

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Type and Period (2)

  • PAVILION (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • PERGOLA (19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Grade II. Early C19 centrepiece; later C19 wings. Centrepiece of tall red brick wall with wooden lattice work against it flanked on left and right by a slate-roofed Doric portico with wooden columns, entablature and pediment. In the back wall of the right hand one a wrought-iron gate. Left and right of this centrepiece and in front of slightly lower red brick buttressed walls, a balustrade of alternating oval and wavy tiles supporting iron urns and capital - less stone columns carrying wooden cross beams. Columns and cross beams now missing on left hand part. At the left end, a garden pavilion. C19. Square piers with guilloche decoration carrying a parapet of oval tiles on which 4 urns. Semicircular arched opening in back wall; in it a wrought iron gate (B2).

Sources (1)

  • <2>SBC4001 Bibliographic reference: DoE. 1985. LIST OF BUILDINGS OF SPECIAL ARCHITECTURAL OR HISTORIC INTEREST: BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: DISTRICT OF SOUTH BUCKS. p216.

Location

Grid reference SU 92433 86038 (point)
Civil Parish TAPLOW, South Bucks, Buckinghamshire

Finds (0)

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Survey: Site visit (EBC13597)

Record last edited

Aug 11 2010 12:28PM

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