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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26524105

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Central Leinster: Kildare, Laois and Offaly (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)