Description

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WESTONBIRT WITH LASBOROUGH A433

ST 88 NE
(off south side)
10/179 Italian garden about 100m
SE of Westonbirt House,
induding Camellia House to North
GV II*

the description shall be amended to read:

Very large formal garden approxiamately 85m by 65m, to south east of Westonbirt House (q.v.)
and including Camellia House attached to north wall. End pavilions probably designed 1843 by
Henry Edward Hamlen, the remainder possibly by Robert Stayner Holford himself. On south
side to east and west ends, 2 large round-headed stone archways with shell crests flanking
niches, obelisks and elaborate strapwork, lead into area of flower beds set in grass on 2 main
levels with two planting bowls resembling fountains, rising up to north, enclosed to east and
west by low moulded stone walls, and to north by tall rat-trap bond brick wall with closely set
stone piers, large overhanging moulded stone cornice with supporting brackets on string course,
with endpavilions and central arch leading to Camellia House. Between arches to south is
central round pond with large grotesque fountain heads to each side. Pavilions in brick with
elaborate strapwork stone dressings and ogee fish-scale tile domes; with archways on three sides
and arched niches to north with ornamental stone seats, mosaic floor. Iron straps support the
stonework as an integral part of the construction . Pavilion to east has additional bay to east
with raised niche at east end probably originally for a sculpture. Central archway with square
piers and triangular pediment with carved ornament above and below, over round-headed arch
into small Camellia House of glass with ornamental iron structure resembling a hammerbeam
roof with circular motifs. The garden is unaltered in its layout and is a good example of the
fashions of the period.
(James Lees-Milne, Country Life Vol 151, 1972)

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WESTONBIRT WITH A433
ST 88 NE
LASBOROUGH (off south side)
10/179 Italian garden about l00m
south east of Westonbirt House,
including Camellia House to north
II*
GV

Very large formal garden approximately 85m by 65m, to south east of
Westonbirt House (q.v.) and including Camellia House attached to
north wall. End pavilions probably designed 1843 by Henry Edward
Hamlen, the remainder possibly by Robert Stayner Holford himself.
On south side to east and west ends, 2 large round-headed stone
archways with shell crests flanking niches, obelisks and elaborate
strapwork, lead into area of flower beds set in grass on 2 main
levels, rising up to north, enclosed to east and west by low
moulded stone walls, and to north by tall rat-trap bond brick wall
with closely set stone piers, large overhanging moulded stone
cornice with supporting brackets on string course, with end
pavilions and central arch leading to Camellia House. Between
arches to south is central round pond with large grotesque fountain
heads to each side. Pavilions in brick with elaborate strapwork
stone dressings and ogee fish-scale tile domes; with archways on
three sides and arched niches to north with ornamental stone seats,
mosaic floor. Iron straps support the stonework as an integral
part of the construction. Pavilion to east has additional bay to
east with raised niche at east end probably originally for a
sculpture. Central archway with square piers and triangular
pediment with carved ornament above and below, over round-headed
arch into -small Camellia House of glass with ornamental iron
structure resembling a hammerbeam roof with circular motifs. The
garden is unaltered in its layout and is a good example of the
fashions of the period.
(James Lees-Milne, Country Life Vol 151, 1972)

Listing NGR: ST8660689600

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17536734

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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)