Covered Seat To West Of Fountain Pond In Melbourne Hall Garden is a Grade I listed building in the South Derbyshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1967. A Queen Anne Garden seat.
Covered Seat To West Of Fountain Pond In Melbourne Hall Garden
- WRENN ID
- grey-hearth-meadow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- South Derbyshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1967
- Type
- Garden seat
- Period
- Queen Anne
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SK 38/3925 PARISH OF MELBOURNE CHURCH CLOSE 6/82 (East Side) 10.11.67 Covered Seat to West of Fountain Pond in Melbourne Hall Garden (formerly listed with the matching seat as 'Two Alcoves in grounds of Melbourne Hall') GV I Covered garden seat. c1704 with later repairs. Erected as part of a French style garden designed by Royal Gardeners to Queen Anne, London and Wise, for Thomas Coke of Melbourne Hall with work carried out by William Cooke of Walcot. Stuccoed brick and timber. Curved timber bench on turned legs fitted into an apsidal structure with stuccoed segmental brick wall, covered by domed leaded roof, with simple panelled timber jambs and segmental cornice with raised keystone. Built as a pair to similar seat to east. Included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at Grade I. See item 6/63 for sources.
Listing NGR: SK3912524888
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