Rustic Summerhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1985. Garden building.
Rustic Summerhouse
- WRENN ID
- worn-quartz-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1985
- Type
- Garden building
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SP 61 NE WOTTON UNDERWOOD WOTTON HOUSE
3/174 Rustic Summerhouse
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- II
Garden building. Probably early C19, though much rebuilt, and moved off its columns in the water to the bank in the 1960s. Timber with patterned log panels, hipped thatch roof. Small square building in rustic style with overhanging eaves roughly supported on posts. One side was formerly on the very edge of the lake and has a wide overhang, probably used to shelter boat. This side also has a door with patterned log panel, and a window over a similar panel. Another board door to rear.
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: SP6854116191
The List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 10 August 2016 as part of the tercentenary of Lancelot Capability Brown's birth.
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