Description

SX 37 NE MILTON ABBOT ENDSLEIGH

9/222 Well-house stone pier and rustic
- seat in the Dairy Dell
21.3.67

GV II

Well-house pier and rustic seat forming a single Picturesque composition of 1810. The
well house is medieval, as is part of the masonry of the seat. The well-house was
moved from Leigh Barton (qv) to Endsleigh in circa 1810 by the 6th Duke of Bedford to
form part of the landscaped gardens designed by Humphry Repton. The internal masonry
is local ashlar and probably medieval, the rustic stone rubble exterior is probably
1810. The well-house and a gabled stone pier of similar size flank a rustic seat
which is a timber bench in front of a medieval stone slab with blind trefoil-headed
arcading. The well-house has a gabled stone slate roof. Small rectangular structure
with a rectangular opening with 1 moulded stone applied as a jamb which may not be
original to the well-house. The interior has a moulded stone corbel with a
decoration of blind pointed arcading. A cobbled drain leads from the well into the
pond in the Dairy Dell. A picturesquely irregular inscription panel in the gable
reads "This simple structure inclosed the holy well which served as a baptismal font
to the Abbots of Tavistock at their hunting seat at Leigh in this parish". The stone
pier has rustic stone rubble masonry and a gabled stone slate roof. Numerous pieces
of moulded and carved medieval masonry are scattered about the well-house and no
doubt originated at Leigh Barton.

Listing NGR: SX3897078601

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26399486

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Recommended Books

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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)