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Latitude: 51.8066 / 51°48'23"N
Longitude: -0.0335 / 0°2'0"W
OS Eastings: 535674
OS Northings: 213828
OS Grid: TL356138
Mapcode National: GBR KBL.QBH
Mapcode Global: VHGPH.CVMD
Plus Code: 9C3XRX48+MH
Entry Name: Gazebo Within the Garden of Former Amwell House
Listing Date: 8 May 1950
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1275397
English Heritage Legacy ID: 412393
Also known as: Gazebo between Numbers 28 and 34, Scotts Road
ID on this website: 101275397
Location: Ware, East Hertfordshire, SG12
County: Hertfordshire
District: East Hertfordshire
Civil Parish: Ware
Built-Up Area: Ware
Traditional County: Hertfordshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Hertfordshire
Church of England Parish: Ware Christ Church
Church of England Diocese: St.Albans
Tagged with: Gazebo
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 02/08/2016
TL3513NE
829-1/13/160
WARE TOWN
SCOTTS ROAD (West side)
Gazebo within the garden of former Amwell House
(Formerly listed as Gazebo between Nos. 28 and 34 (not included))
08/05/50
GV
II*
Gazebo. Built c1768 by John Scott, the Quaker poet, of Amwell House. Restored 1990. Constructed above the grotto (qv) on the summit of the hillside above Scott's garden. Single storey, octagonal plan. High brick plinth, with 2 flights of flint steps to entrance, with half glazed door, with pointed fanlight with Gothic tracery above. In remainder, 3 flush set Gothic arched, traceried, casement windows, alternating with flint-faced panels. Moulded wood cornice. Old tiled roof. Described by Scott as his `airy octogon', from which he commanded a panorama from Hertford, across Ware to Great Amwell, the subject of his long poem `Amwell'.
(Heath C: The Book of Ware. A Portrait of the Town: Chesham: 1977: 105-6, 120-1; Perman D: Ware UD. List of buildings of special arch or historic interest: 1993: 57; Ware 25" to 1 Mile. Surveyed by the Ordnance Survey Department: 1851).
Listing NGR: TL3567413828
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