Apollo Pavilion is a Grade II* listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 December 2011. Pavilion.

Apollo Pavilion

WRENN ID
eternal-spire-ivy
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
County Durham
Country
England
Date first listed
14 December 2011
Type
Pavilion
Source
Historic England listing

Description

The Apollo Pavilion is a cantilevered construction in reinforced concrete cast in situ with iron railings and balusters. The concrete has two different surface finishes: fair face and exposed aggregate (bush hammered). It consists of a series of cubic shapes forming four plinths which support an upper level above which are further, partly interlocking, shapes of varying sizes. The structure straddles the eastern end of a small lake which drains to the east over a weir controlling the water levels. The lower floor of the pavilion crosses the lake at just above water level via a curving concrete path. Concrete steps with iron railings rise on the south side to the upper level, with an iron gate at the top (added in 2009). The pale concrete has two abstract hand-painted murals in black, on the inward facing sides of the outer ends: these are 2009 renewals of the originals. Rising from the lake immediately to the west of the main structure is a metal pole holding an abstract, tubular, concrete sculpture.

The area around the pavilion is paved with cobbles set in concrete which slope down to the water's edge both around the lake and to either side of the stream as it falls to the east. There is a viewing platform over the beck to the east of the Pavilion.

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