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Real Tennis Court Remains About 100 Metres North East of Stowe Barton and Wall to East

A Grade II Listed Building in Kilkhampton, Cornwall

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Coordinates

Latitude: 50.8735 / 50°52'24"N

Longitude: -4.5392 / 4°32'21"W

OS Eastings: 221440

OS Northings: 111297

OS Grid: SS214112

Mapcode National: GBR K2.T9WX

Mapcode Global: FRA 16CS.RDB

Plus Code: 9C2QVFF6+C8

Entry Name: Real Tennis Court Remains About 100 Metres North East of Stowe Barton and Wall to East

Listing Date: 9 September 1985

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1230425

English Heritage Legacy ID: 64823

ID on this website: 101230425

Location: Coombe, Cornwall, EX23

County: Cornwall

Civil Parish: Kilkhampton

Traditional County: Cornwall

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cornwall

Church of England Parish: Kilkhampton

Church of England Diocese: Truro

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Description


SS 21 SW KILKHAMPTON

3/14 Real tennis court remains about
- 100 metres north east of Stowe
Barton and wall to east
- II

Remains of real tennis court, partly used as shippon. Late C17. Associated with
Stowe, built for John Grenville, Earl of Bath, in 1679. English bond local brick,
some polyphant stones. 3 sides of a rectangle in brick walling, the dimensions
correspond to the area of a real tennis court, 29.3 x 9.8 metres. Further wall,
about 4 metres distant from north wall probably the inner wall forming the side and
service penthouses, sloping slate roof across the north and inner wall forms
present shippon. South wall has moulded polyphant stones at base on inner side.
Remains of cement floor. The tennis court is referred to in Charles Kingsley's
Westward Ho! (1855) Chap.VII, where it is mentioned that since the demolition of
Stowe in 1739 "the stables have become a farmhouse, the tennis-court a sheep-cote".


Listing NGR: SS2144011297

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