Walls And Summerhouse Of Wood House North Garden

SX 69 NE SOUTH TAWTON

1/181 Walls and summerhouse of Wood House north garden

GV II*

Walls and summerhouse. 1899-1905 by Thomas Mawson. Granite rubble walls arranged to look like crazy paving; granite ashlar detail and quoins; slate coping to walls and thatch roof to the summerhouse. The lawn of the north garden are enclosed on 3 sides by high walls and is open on the south-east (towards the house), the right side the back of a stable courtyard. The back wall curves back behind a small summerhouse. It is circular in plan supported on monolithic granite front posts. These are circular in a kind of classical style. There is a stone seat around the back and it has a conical thatch roof. Either side are round-headed niches with moulded eared architraves and there are 3 more on the left side. None now have statues. Also a doorway through the back wall contains an original door. This is part of an extensive landscaping scheme conceived by Mawson to go with the rebuilding of Wood House (q.v.). It wa-s overlooked from the billiard room in the house. Mawson himself considered the whole one of his major achievements. Source: T H Mawson The Art and Craft of Garden Making, (5th edition) includes copious notes and illustrations of Wood House.

Listing NGR: SX6546196060