Summer House In Garden Of Purbeck House is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1983. Summer house.
Summer House In Garden Of Purbeck House
- WRENN ID
- silent-kitchen-smoke
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1983
- Type
- Summer house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
1. 5190 SZ 0278 NE 5/89
HIGH STREET (south side) Summer House in garden of Purbeck House
II
2. Probably C18, built in connection with the earlier house. Circular summer house, raised above garden level on an earth mound, approached by a stone stair. There was formerly a water tank under the floor. Stone walls, rendered externally, Purbeck Stone roof. Interior has a blocked fireplace and 2 ornamental plaster plaques. Manhole to former water tank in the floor. Fixed timber table with circular revolving top made from a cart wheel from one of the former horse-drawn carts used to transport stone to boats at the quay. At the rear of the summer house is a raised water tank, in a stone, brick and timber structure, dated 1884, which at one time fed the cistern below the summer house.
Listing NGR: SZ0294578588
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