Summerhouse 15 Metres South West Of Lavengro (Lavengro Not Included) is a Grade II listed building in the The Broads Authority local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 June 1993. Summerhouse.
Summerhouse 15 Metres South West Of Lavengro (Lavengro Not Included)
- WRENN ID
- moated-storey-dew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- The Broads Authority
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 June 1993
- Type
- Summerhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
TM 59 SW LOWESTOFT BOATHOUSE LANE, Oulton Broad (south east side) 914-1/3/98 Summerhouse 15m SW of Lavengro. (Lavengro not included) 21/06/93 II
Summerhouse. c1830, altered. Timber-framed and weatherboarded on brick plinth. Brick extension to west c1850. Late C20 felt roof. Square plan with chamfered comers, to appear octagonal. Ha1f-glazed doors in south-east and north-east chamfered, replaced windows to south. pyramid roof terminating in a small octagonal lantern. Historic association with George Borrow (1803 -1881), who lived at Oulton Cottage 1840 -53 and 1874 -81, dying in Oulton Cottage 1881. The summerhouse was his study. The novel "Lavengro", published 1851, written entirely within this building. Oulton Cottage was demolished after 1885 and a new house was built called Lavengro, which is not included. (Bunn, Ivan: George Borrow's Oulton; Oulton: 1981).
Listing NGR: TM5098292860
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