Picklecombe Seat is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1968. Garden feature. 1 related planning application.
Picklecombe Seat
- WRENN ID
- silver-obsidian-rye
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1968
- Type
- Garden feature
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK
7/226 Picklecombe Seat
23.1.68 GV II
Garden feature in the form of an alcove temple. Late C18, incorporating earlier features. Slatestone and granite rubble with granite arch and limestone dressings. Rectangular plan with 5 granite steps leading to open front. Gothick style. Central tall elliptical arch flanked by aedicules, each with pair of engaged shafts; pediment over the shafts with trefoils along head and cusped tympanum. Rubble sides and rear. Interior Cobbled floor. Ridged granite vault with one wide convex-moulded rib to rear. Rear wall has imitation piscina/niche, with engaged shafts to right and left, trefoil head with crocketted gable moulding over, in limestone; quatrefoil sink inside niche, and rectangular recess to rear. Rev. Shaw, in Early Tours of Devon and Cornwall, 1788: "Winding beautifully round we came next to a gothic alcove built from the materials of an old chapel the inside of which gives a picturesque view of nothing but the sea...".
Listing NGR: SX4546551826
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