Gazebo Within The Garden Of Former Amwell House is a Grade II* listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. A C18 Garden structure.
Gazebo Within The Garden Of Former Amwell House
- WRENN ID
- shifting-cupola-vermeil
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- Garden structure
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/08/2016
TL3513NE 829-1/13/160
WARE TOWN SCOTTS ROAD (West side) Gazebo within the garden of former Amwell House
(Formerly listed as Gazebo between Nos. 28 and 34 (not included))
08/05/50
GV
II*
Gazebo. Built c1768 by John Scott, the Quaker poet, of Amwell House. Restored 1990. Constructed above the grotto (qv) on the summit of the hillside above Scott's garden. Single storey, octagonal plan. High brick plinth, with 2 flights of flint steps to entrance, with half glazed door, with pointed fanlight with Gothic tracery above. In remainder, 3 flush set Gothic arched, traceried, casement windows, alternating with flint-faced panels. Moulded wood cornice. Old tiled roof. Described by Scott as his airy octogon', from which he commanded a panorama from Hertford, across Ware to Great Amwell, the subject of his long poemAmwell'.
(Heath C: The Book of Ware. A Portrait of the Town: Chesham: 1977: 105-6, 120-1; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993: 57; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851).
Listing NGR: TL3567413828
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