Building record 0420802067 - Closet, Home Park, Stowe Landscape Gardens

Summary

Eighteenth to nineteenth century small square building with pyramidal roof used as a lavatory

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

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Type and Period (1)

  • PRIVY HOUSE (18th Century to 19th Century - 1700 AD? to 1899 AD?)

Description

The National Trust Survey of Stowe undertaken in 1989 notes a small, square, undated stone building with a pyramidial stone roof. The walls are decorated with machicolations and have slit windows in the N and S sides. The building is entered by the south side. Inside the east floor is missing and there is a scar on the wall where the seats were situated. The stone floor is supported by low vaults and no drainage is visible (B13).

Sources (2)

  • ---SBC17422 Aerial Photograph: 04/09/76. BCM A2/11/20-22. SP\674376. Yes.
  • <13>SBC16362 Bibliographic reference: WAINWRIGHT A 1989 NATIONAL TRUST ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY: STOWE (COPY, FILED). p24.

Location

Grid reference SP 6712 3689 (point)
Civil Parish STOWE, Aylesbury Vale, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Aug 25 2009 11:44AM

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