We don't have any photos of this building yet. Why don't you be the first to send us one?
Latitude: 51.9021 / 51°54'7"N
Longitude: -1.5772 / 1°34'37"W
OS Eastings: 429187
OS Northings: 222705
OS Grid: SP291227
Mapcode National: GBR 5RS.Q2X
Mapcode Global: VHBZF.MG25
Plus Code: 9C3WWC2F+V4
Entry Name: Boat House at East End of Lake Approximately 300 Metres South of Sarsden House
Listing Date: 15 May 1989
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1367833
English Heritage Legacy ID: 254086
ID on this website: 101367833
Location: Sarsden, West Oxfordshire, OX7
County: Oxfordshire
District: West Oxfordshire
Civil Parish: Sarsden
Traditional County: Oxfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Oxfordshire
Church of England Parish: Churchill
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Boathouse
SARSDEN SP22SE 7/191 Boat house at E end of lake approx. 300m S of Sarsden House
- II
Boat house. Circa 1796 by Humphry Repton for John Langston. Boulder-faced sub-structure with wood superstructure and rubble projection to rear; stone slate roofs. Built in the form of a classical temple. Sub-structure has round-headed arch with voussoirs. 'Temple' above in the style of a distyle in antis portico of the Doric order with applied bark decoration to columns and antae; the columns wrapped round with diagonally placed iron bands. Round-headed arches to left and right with wood imposts and 'keystones'. Wooden bench to back with applied bark decoration above. Humphry Repton, who created the lake by which the boat house stands, presented a Red Book for improvements to Sarsden (including the lake) to John Langston in March 1796. From drawings in the RIBA drawings collection it appears that he originally intended the boat house to be of stone with Ionic columns but presumably this design was quickly substituted as there is no evidence to suggest that a stone boat house was ever built. (Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, pp752-3; Nigel Temple: 'Sarsden Oxfordshire'; Journal of Garden History: Vol.6, No.2 (1986), pp89-111 (esp.pp99-101); RIBA drawings collection: Cat., p.116 (31)) [2641]
Listing NGR: SP2918722705
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
Other nearby listed buildings