The Red Seat is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 January 1987. Summer house. 1 related planning application.
The Red Seat
- WRENN ID
- crumbling-beam-myrtle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cornwall
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 January 1987
- Type
- Summer house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK
7/227 The Red Seat
GV II
Summer house, called the Red Seat or Kiosk. Circa 1836. Sandstone rubble. Single storey summer house with front viewing room and shallow rear room; roofless. Rectangular plan, about 4 metres by 1½ metres overall, with open front and sides. Front has arcade of 3 round arches with elliptical headed arch to left and right sides, 2 rectangular piers dividing front arches, front wall swept down to right and left. Granite seat along rear wall. Small room to rear. The Red Seat is one of the features of the Upper Zigzags, a system of formal paths terraced into the hillside and cliffs along the coast, approximately south/south east of Mount Edgcumbe House (q.v.). The Upper Zigzags are described in 1836, although they are shown on the map of 1756 (BM Plymouth 11 77).
Listing NGR: SX4576851828
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