Description

TL 4113 HUNSDONBURY
(east side)
8/20 Mock Ruin in Garden
of Longcroft
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G.V. I

Amend grade to read:- II

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TL 4113 HUNSDON HUNSDONBURY
(east side)

8/20 Mock Ruin in
Garden of Longcroft

GV I

Mock ruin. Circa 1832, probably by C Kemp for Revd Nicolsen
Robert Calvert, as a garden embellishment to his rebuilt Tudor
style rectory of that date which later became Hunsdonbury qv.
Knapped flint with stucco dressings on brick to represent
stonework. Facing N, a convincing mock ruin of the lower part of
the W wall, of a medieval church tower, now partly covered in
creeper. Diagonal corner buttresses with stucco quoins, heavy
moulded plinth course, central 4-centred arched doorway with 2
chamfered orders and dripmould with kings' heads as stops. The
lower part of a window over the door. Door leads into a small
circular vaulted chamber with the walls and vault plastered to
represent ashlar. The chamber is covered by a large semicircular
earth mound now mostly in the garden of The Gate House. A
picturesque Gothic garden building in the form of a mock ruin.
Part of a group with Hunsdonbury and the Gate House.

Listing NGR: TL4142313061

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26395865

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Recommended Books

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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings