Gazebo, Westbury Court Gardens

SO 71 SW WESTBURY-ON-SEVERN WESTBURY VILLAGE

11/280 Gazebo, Westbury Court Gardens

GV II*

Garden house: probably between 1715 and 1725, for Maynard Colchester II; red brick, Flemish bond; ashlar stone, slate roof. Square, single storey, with one window per facade. Entrance front from main garden, brick plinth with stone capping: rusticated square corner piers. Tall doorway, set above 4 stone steps with swept wrought-iron handrails. Rusticated stone jambs to doorway, with outside Corinthian pilasters, bottom third of fluting infilled with reeds. Moulded capitals to jamb set below capitals to pilasters: semi-circular head to opening with projecting keystone. Impost blocks to pilasters. Moulded cornice all round building, breaking forward for corner piers, and pilasters and keystone to doorway. Door glazed above 2 fielded panels, renewed to old pattern in 1970's. Plain brick parapet above cornice, simply moulded stone coping swept up slightly to corner stone piers, capped with ball finials. Hipped roof. Moulded stone surround to windows, with semi-circular heads and dropped keystones: fixed sashes. Garden wall (q.v.), abuts gazebo at 2 corners by road. Built as part of Dutch water garden for Westbury Court, house since demolished. (G. Jackson-Stops, Westbury Court Gardens, 1975, revised 1984, for National Trust.)

Listing NGR: SO7189213926