The Turkey Building

The Turkey Building is a garden pavilion dating from the 1750s, although it has been significantly rebuilt, most recently around 2000. This wooden structure is designed in an oriental style and features a semi-octagonal shape with three open sides and a lath and plaster rear wall. Each corner is adorned with clusters of slender shafts that have moulded capitals, set on plinths with moulded cornices. The entablature has been altered and includes wrought iron scroll brackets and a wooden frieze that is pierced with geometric patterns. Inside, there is a stone flag floor, and the pavilion is topped with a tented copper roof that has a crescent moon finial. The building is illustrated in Country Life on July 8, 1949.

The pavilion is situated within a historic designed landscape surrounding an early 18th-century country house. This landscape features a contemporary layout, likely developed by George London and Henry Wise, and was expanded into an extensive mid-18th-century park for George Grenville by Lancelot Brown. William Pitt, later the first Earl of Chatham, is noted for his significant contributions to the design.