Doric Temple And Steps To Lakeside Pool

In the entry for:- NORTH NIBLEY STANCOMBE PARK ST 73 96 8/130 Doric Temple and steps to lakeside pool

the grade shall be amended to read: Grade II* (star)

NORTH NIBLEY STANCOMBE PARK ST 7396 8/130 Doric Temple and steps to lakeside pool GV II

Summer house and steps to lakeside conduit-fed pool. c1860 for Rev. David Edwards. Limestone ashlar. Flat roof inaccessible for inspection. Classical. Single-storey; rectangular with porticoes and columned arcading to front. Central tetrastyle pedimented Roman Doric portico; central window in wall behind with moulded architrave and console-bracketed cornice. Areas recessed either side of portico behind 2-columned arcading. Projecting distyle porticoes at each end with single window to wall behind each with moulded architrave and console-bracketed cornice. Windows contain leaded fixed-lights with stained glass margins. Continuous entablature. Square porch at north end with moulded round-headed archway; smaller round-headed archways in sides of porch; 6-panel door. Canted bay to south end with small windows in canted sides and central parapet-mounted moulded chimney. Interior: long central room with coffered-coving to ceiling and central roof light. Two-column marble Ionic end screens; recesses at mid length on either side with columns distyle in antis. Long narrow flight of stone steps lead from centre of front elevation down to circular stone-sided pool projecting into lake. One of a sequence of features in the very extensive Regency and early Victorian landscaped park and pleasure garden. Groups with Parker's Lodge and The Studio (q.v.). (B. Jones, Follies and Grottoes, 1974; and D. Verey, Gloucestershire: The Cotswolds, 1979.)

Listing NGR: ST7390996864