The Alcove, Weston Park is a Grade II listed building in the Milton Keynes local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 March 1952. Garden building.

The Alcove, Weston Park

WRENN ID: fossil-cornice-plover
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Milton Keynes
Country: England
Date first listed: 3 March 1952
Type: Garden building
Source: Historic England listing

Description

SP 85 SE 1/268

WESTON UNDERWOOD WOOD LANE The Alcove, Weston Park

(formerly listed as Cowpers Alcove)

3.3.52

II Garden building. Mid C18. Hexagonal on plan. Coursed rubblestone, rendered to interior. Open front with two Doric columns, entablature and hipped slate roof. Seats round the back walls. Built as a viewpoint on the path leading from the Rustic Bridge to The Wilderness via the Lime Avenue (now felled) in Weston Park. Frequented by the poet William Cowper when resident in Olney and subsequently in Cowper's House, Weston Underwood.

Listing NGR: SP8612151376

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