Tuscan Pavilions is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 October 1951. Garden pavilion.
Tuscan Pavilions
- WRENN ID
- broken-railing-hazel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 October 1951
- Type
- Garden pavilion
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SP 61 NE WOTTON UNDERWOOD WOTTON HOUSE
3/172 Tuscan Pavilions (formerly listed under Wotton House)
25.10.51
GV II
Pair of garden pavilions. 1750s, repaired and largely reconstructed in the 1980s. Each pavilion takes the form of a small temple with a pedimented wooden portico of 4 Tuscan columns at each end. Short lath and plaster side walls and single cross wall, slate roofs. Pavilions overlook the lake and are set at slight angle to wide avenue along main axis of house. Illustrated in Country Life 1949 July 8th.
The historic designed landscape surrounding an early-C18 country house, with a contemporary layout, probably by George London and Henry Wise, developed into an extensive mid-C18 park for George Grenville by Lancelot Brown; William Pitt, later first Earl of Chatham, is credited with significant input with regard to the design.
Listing NGR: SP6810616061
The List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 10 August 2016 as part of the tercentenary celebration of Lancelot Capability Brown's birth.
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