Description

SX 45 SE MAKER-WITH-RAME MOUNT EDGCUMBE COUNTRY PARK

7/193 The Shell Seat

23.1.68
GV II

Summer house. Late C18. Rubble structure entirely faced with crystals, rocks and
shells, including mica, rough amethyst, ammonites, calcite and quartz crystals,
brain corals, conch and ormer shells etc. Semicircular plan, half of a
hemispherical vault, with open front, with slate roof. Front has round arch with
large block of brain coral forming imitation keystone, front face of vault set with
variety of stones and shells at random. The internal vault is divided into 7
radiating bays by strips of ormer shells, forming white stripes, the spaces between
faced with red crystals, graded in colouring from deep red at the centre rear to
lighter pink at the front; the stonework of the bays is laced with chips of crystal.
The overall effect is of a trompe l'oeil perspective. Along the rear wall is a
crystalline-faced bench. The floor is cobbled in a pattern radiating from a circle
at the centre front.

Listing NGR: SX4541852595

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26433426

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Old House Care and Repair
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  England's Post-War Listed Buildings
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  Surrey (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)