Two Summerhouses And The Linking Brick Wall, North West Boundary Of Fordhay House (From 2 Metres To 20 Metres South Of Fordhay House) is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 April 1961. A C18 Summerhouse.
Two Summerhouses And The Linking Brick Wall, North West Boundary Of Fordhay House (From 2 Metres To 20 Metres South Of Fordhay House)
- WRENN ID
- fallow-quartz-martin
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 April 1961
- Type
- Summerhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST4ISE EAST CHINNOCK CP FORDHAY (East side)
3/67 Two summerhouses and the linking brick wall, North West boundary of Fordhay House, (from 2 metres to 20 metres South of Fordhay House - Summerhouses formerly listed) 19.4.61
GV II
Two summerhouses. C18. Red brick with stone dressings; Welsh slate with stone slate base course and lead dressings with shaped elm board verges on garden side. Half-oval on plan with timber seats all round to garden side, 5 recessed panels on inside of walls, with stone panels in centre with a small diamond-shape viewing aperture set in an oval recess: very shallow domed ceilings under conical roofs crowned with stone ball finials: the two summerhouses identical. Linking red brick wall about 2.25 metres high. Said by tradition to be look-out posts to enable the innkeeper to be warned of approaching carriages to Fordhay House (qv).
Listing NGR: ST4951012969
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