The Generals Room

The General's Room is an ornamental Indian pavilion that was rebuilt on its current site around 1880. It features a timber frame with lathe and plaster panels and an asphalt hipped roof. This single-storey structure is raised above ground level and has three finely carved window surrounds, with smaller casements flanking a larger window, all topped with elaborately carved wooden canopies. The roof has deep eaves supported by heavily carved brackets. At the rear, there is a planked door accessed by steps, while the returns are windowless. Although the interior was not accessible during the survey in April 1985, it is noted to have walls lined with carved wooden panels. Known as the General's Room, it is part of a group of Indian buildings acquired by General Pitt-Rivers, who erected them in his pleasure grounds to showcase an unfamiliar culture to the public during the last two decades of the 19th century. It is one of only two such buildings that have survived intact.