Summerhouse About 70 Metres South West Of Lisle Combe

the following building shall be added:-

VENTNOR SZ57NW UNDERCLIFF DRIVE, St Lawrence 766-0/5/10002 Summerhouse about 70 metres south west of Lisle Combe

GV II

Summerhouse. Circa 1820's. Wooden and with stone rubble rear and east side walls. Slate roof with wooden pediments at ends. Rectangular plan Tetrastyle Doric temple with four unfluted wooden columns on the east end and five on the south side, the north and east being blind stone walls; wooden entablature with triglyphs in the frieze; large 12-pane sashes between the columns on the south side and half-glazed door at the centre of the west side. INTERIOR: Plain plastered interior; moulded window architraves. NOTE: The summerhouse was probably formerly in the grounds of The Cottage [qv], Sir Richard Worseley's marine residence. Lisle Coombe, in the grounds of which it now is, was built in about the 1820's, was associated with the Yarborough family and was the home, from 1930-59, of the poet and author Alfred Noyes, 1880-1959.

Listing NGR: SZ5422276708