Garden Pavilion 20M South-East Of Beaulieu Lodge

A late-18th-century garden pavilion standing 20 metres south-east of Beaulieu Lodge in Bath. The building is a single storey structure with a square plan, constructed in coursed limestone rubble with ashlar quoins. It originally featured a timber-framed pyramid roof rising above an ashlar-coped parapet with cornicing, though the roof is now lost. The northern elevation contains a doorway set under a two-pointed arch, now partially blocked. A similar pointed arched window is present in the western elevation.

The pavilion stands within a late-18th-century terraced garden, which was further improved in the late-19th century and offers extensive views of the surrounding landscape. The Tithe Map for Weston (1846) names the site as 'Beaulieu and Pleasure Gardens'. The pavilion may be contemporary with the main house, Beaulieu Lodge, which probably dates from around 1772. According to George Monkwell's 1859 supplement to 'Literature and Literati of Bath', the house was built for John Zephaniah Holwell (1711–1798), an East India Company servant famous for his account of the Black Hole disaster in Fort William, Calcutta in 1756. However, more recent scholarship by W.F. Rae (2004) suggests the house may instead have been built by the playwright and satirist Richard Tickell (1751–1793). The garden pavilion shares stylistic detail with Gothic arch windows inserted in the lower ground floor of the main house's rear canted bay, suggesting a possible connection. In 1885, Beaulieu was purchased by Alexander Hill Gray, a local traveller and gardener, who further improved the gardens as recorded in 1899 and 1925. The pavilion's window commands views across the River Avon to Kelston Park, laid out by landscape architect Lancelot Brown between 1767 and 1768.