Description

SO 85 NW HALLOW CP A 443 (east side) SO 83205715

4/71 Games pavilion in gardens at Parkfield

GV II

Games pavilion. c1870-80. Timber-framed, patterned glazed ceramic tile infill, rendered infill to rear, brick and ashlar base, slate roofs. Single storey; octagonal plan with gabled side wings. Framing to rear and wings of 3 irregularly-sized panels from sill to wall-plate. Shaped ceramic tiled frieze beneath eaves; octagonal roof rises to central moulded finial, near top of each slope is a gablet with tiled infill and fleur-de-lys finial. Front elevation to north has a central, round-headed archway with cusped and moulded decoration, and beyond it projects a lead-roofed, gabled porch with pierced moulded bargeboards and supported on moulded timber uprights. Openings each side of gabled entrance have flat arches with moulded arch-braces. Gabled side wings of former changing and store rooms have a narrow, round-headed light to front elevation; their moulded arches are on imposts which continue as strings to side, gable end elevations where they terminate at base of jambs of a 2-light chamfered mullioned window beneath eaves level; both windows in each wing are of stained glass; pierced, mourned bargeboards in gable ends, and wrought-iron ridge decoration with tall moulded finial at gable ends. Interior Roof has moulded central king-post and pendant from which 8 tie-beams radiate to wall-plate; moulded cornice above tiled frieze; ceramic tiled panels throughout; the 3 rear walls have tiled panels illustrating the games of archery, badminton and croquet, beneath which runs a wooden bench with a tiled frieze below; panelled doors to changing and store rooms each side; patterned tiled floor.

Listing NGR: SO8319557172

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)