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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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)