Description

TL 4113 HUNSDONBURY (east side) 8/20 Mock Ruin in Garden of Longcroft -

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

• Wikidata Q26395865

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Recommended Books

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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)