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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
Tagged with: Architectural structure
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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