Description

PAINSWICK PAINSWICK HOUSE
SO 8610/8710
6/262 Gothic seat, c.150 m
south west of Painswick
House
GV II*
Garden element. c.1750, possibly by Thomas Robins. Large limestone ashlar
block front, rubble back wall, stone slate roof. A 3-bay open loggia with
pointed arches separated by clustered slender colonnettes, the central opening
wider, and with crenellations above a string course, raised in the centre
section. At the back are two raking buttresses. The interior has a rectangular
coved plaster vault; both this and the hipped roof in poor condition at time of
Survey (March 1986). One of a group of garden buildings in an important
surviving rococo ensemble, at the bottom end of a long north-south vista.
(Mowel, T and White, R; Thomas Robins at Painswick, Jnl of Garden History, Vol 4
no 2).

Listing NGR: SO8619010382

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17538062

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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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