Wind and Weather Hut

WIND AND WEATHER HUT

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1252303
Date first listed:
19-Jun-1992
Statutory Address:
WIND AND WEATHER HUT

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Date:
2001-07-19
Reference:
IOE01/03660/15
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1252303
Date first listed:
19-Jun-1992
Statutory Address 1:
WIND AND WEATHER HUT

Location

Statutory Address:
WIND AND WEATHER HUT

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:
Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Selworthy
National Park:
Exmoor
National Grid Reference:
SS 91474 47660

Details

SS 94 NW SELWORTHY

4/10000 Wind & Weather Hut II Memorial. Erected 1878 by John Barton Arundel Acland of Holnicote, New Zealand, the youngest son of Thomas Dyke Acland (1787-1871). Built of ashlar, it is of rectangular plan with a hipped stone roof and chamfered piers framing recesses with seats set under inscriptions. These include poems extolling the beauties of the countryside by Heber and Keble and an inscription in commemoration of Thomas Dyke Acland, who holds an important place in the history of the Picturesque movement for his improvement of the Selworthy estate, particularly notable being the cottages around Selworthy Green (q.v.).

Listing NGR: SS9147447660

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