Summerhouse In Garden Of No. 20 is a Grade II listed building in the Bath and North East Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 August 1972. Summerhouse.
Summerhouse In Garden Of No. 20
- WRENN ID
- iron-latch-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bath and North East Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 August 1972
- Type
- Summerhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
LANSDOWN CRESCENT (North side) Summerhouse in Garden of No.20 11/08/72 II
Miniature Islamic summerhouse. c1825. Probably designed by HE Goodridge and built by William Beckford who may have helped with design. Bath stone, square on plan, cornice, blocking course, semicircular dome. Trefoiled heads to door and window openings, stone grills to windows. HISTORY: Beckford moved to No.20 (qv) soon after leaving Fonthill in 1822 and lived there until shortly before his death in 1844. Goodridge was designing Lansdown Tower (qv) for him at this time. The structure is of considerable interest but has undergone some reconstruction. SOURCES: (The Connoisseur, April 1976, 251; James Lees-Milne, `William Beckford' (1976), 88-89; Jackson N: Nineteenth Century Bath - Architects and Architecture: Bath: 1991-: 91;).
Listing NGR: ST7457266092
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