Description

SE21SE WEST BRETTON PARK ROAD
(north side, off)

8/85 Camellia House in
22.11.66 Bretton Park approx. 80
metres west of Bretton
Hall

GV II

Camellia House. Circa 1812 by Jeffry Wyatt, for Col. Thomas Richard and
Diana Beaumont. Ashlar and glass. A symmetrical composition of 7 x 1 bays
plus a diagonally projecting bay at each corner. Square panelled piers to
the front supporting the entablature and blocking course which is stepped up
at centre. Full-height glazing. Large round-arched windows, with glazing
bars, to the corner bays framed by engaged Tuscan columns. Hipped glass
roofs, separate over the projecting bays. Rear: central projection with side
wings with entrance portals, no glazing.
Interior: niche at left and right rear. Scrolled iron brackets support the
iron gutter and similar arched braces to roof apex. Iron tie rods to 2
intermediated trusses clasped by pairs of slender iron columns.
N. Pevsner. The Buildings of England. 1967.
Bretton College Archive.

Listing NGR: SE2823712854

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26599670

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Recommended Books

• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
• 
  Renovating Old Houses: Bringing New Life to Vintage Homes (For Pros By Pros)
• 
  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cornwall (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)