Building record 0420802044 - Chinese House, Stowe Landscape Gardens

Summary

An eighteenth to twentieth century garden building, known as the Chinese House

Protected Status/Designation

  • SHINE: Stowe medieval to post medieval landscape garden, medieval deserted villages of Lamport & Boycott, shrunken village of Daford, also moats, manors and fishponds, ridge and furrow earthworks & cropmarks, and areas of ancient semi natural woodland (DBC7454)

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Type and Period (1)

  • GARDEN ORNAMENT (18th Century to Modern - 1700 AD? to 1999 AD)

Description

One of the lesser garden ornanments/buildings which had a drainage trench dug around it in November 1999. No archaeological features were noted (B18).

Sources (2)

  • ---SBC17422 Aerial Photograph: 04/09/76. BCM A2/11/20-22. SP\674376. Yes.
  • <18>SBC19555 Unpublished document: Oliver Jessop (National Trust). 1999. Chinese House: Observations on a Drainage Trench Surrounding the Chinese House.

Location

Grid reference SP 6813 3716 (point)
Civil Parish STOWE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

Finds (0)

Related Monuments/Buildings (1)

Related Events/Activities (1)

  • Event - Intervention: Observation on a drainage trench surrounding the Chinese House (EBC16229)

Record last edited

Aug 25 2009 11:46AM

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