The Turkey Building is a Grade II listed building in the Buckinghamshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 February 1985. Pavilion.
The Turkey Building
- WRENN ID
- old-vestry-heron
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Buckinghamshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 26 February 1985
- Type
- Pavilion
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SP 61 NE WOTTON UNDERWOOD WOTTON HOUSE
3/177 The Turkey Building
-
- II
Garden pavilion, 1750s, but much rebuilt, most recently circa 2000. Wooden building in oriental style. Semi-octagonal with 3 open sides and lath and plaster rear wall. Each corner has cluster of slender shafts with moulded capitals, on plinths with moulded cornices. Altered entablature has wrought iron scroll brackets and wooden frieze pierced with geometric patterns. Stone flag floor. Tented copper roof with crescent moon finial. 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: SP6854116191
The List entry was subject to a Minor Enhancement on 10 August 2016 as part of the tercentenary celebrations of Lancelot Capability Brown's birth.
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