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Latitude: 53.5495 / 53°32'58"N
Longitude: -1.2739 / 1°16'26"W
OS Eastings: 448206
OS Northings: 406119
OS Grid: SE482061
Mapcode National: GBR MWKD.0B
Mapcode Global: WHDD0.D1MQ
Plus Code: 9C5WGPXG+RC
Entry Name: Belverdere Summer House
Listing Date: 5 June 1968
Last Amended: 11 April 1986
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1151628
English Heritage Legacy ID: 334519
ID on this website: 101151628
Location: Hickleton, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN5
County: Doncaster
Civil Parish: Hooton Pagnell
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): South Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Barnburgh with Melton-on-the-Hill
Church of England Diocese: Sheffield
Tagged with: House
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BILHAM
BILHAM LANE
Belverdere Summer House
(Formerly listed as HOOTON PAGNELL BILHAM Bilham Belevedere Summer House, previously listed as Summer House)
5.6.68
II
Summer house. c1800 by John Rawstorne for William Hewett of Bilham Hall (demolished). Rubble limestone, roof now collapsed. Single-cell central block of two storeys has vaulted undercroft, curved-bay protection to front and lower single-bay side wings. Chamfered quoins. Curved bay: dislodged doorcase retains pediment; shaped panel and band over, upper walling ruined. Central block above has quoined opening with tripartite keyblock. Wing to left has round-arched brick panel and large area of walling missing. Wing to right has standing corner and return wall. Rear: chamfered, rounded arch to undercroft. Intact opening above has projecting sill, quoined architrave and tripartite keyblock. Rusticated round-arched panel to basement of each wing. Return walls of central block retain openings as on lst-floor front.
Interior: groined brick vault to undercroft.
Miller (p277) notes "... W. N. W. Hewett, Esq. who has lately, at some distance from his mansion, erected an elegant small structure called Bel-vedere or Belle Vue, which commands, perhaps, the most extensive, but certainly the richest prospect of any place in the West-Riding of Yorkshire".
Designs for the building exhibited by Rawstorne at the Royal Academy in 1800 (Colvin), p673). Colvin wrongly states that the building is,demolished.
H. Colvin, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1800, 1978.
E. Miller, The History and Antiquities of Doncaster, 1804.
Listing NGR: SE4820606119
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