Description

SP 61 NE WOTTON UNDERWOOD WOTTON HOUSE

3/177 The Turkey Building

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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.

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26617611

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Building Small Projects (New Best of Fine Woodworking)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)