Monument record 5074 - The Tig House in the Wilderness Garden, Adlington Hall

A summerhouse: built in the mid C18 for Charles Legh of red brick partly clad with black and white painted timber framing. Stone-slate pyramidal roof with a wooden finial at the apex. Square in plan and formerly open on 3 sides (now only 2). Open faces have timber panels with quatrefoil decoration flanking flattened ogee headed opening partly hidden by curved wooden brackets. Interior: later fixed 2m square stone table, the top of a single dressed piece resting on 4 square legs with recessed hammer-dressed panels on each face. The ceiling has Charles Legh's monogram in a circular panel.