GROTTO EAST OF CALKE ABBEY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031376
Date first listed:: 06-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: GROTTO EAST OF CALKE ABBEY
Statutory Address:: GROTTO EAST OF CALKE ABBEY

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1031376
Date first listed:: 06-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: GROTTO EAST OF CALKE ABBEY
Statutory Address 1:: GROTTO EAST OF CALKE ABBEY

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: GROTTO EAST OF CALKE ABBEY

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

County:: Derbyshire
District:: South Derbyshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Calke
National Grid Reference:: SK3697522697

Details

SK 32 SE 4/24

PARISH OF CALKE CALKE PARK Grotto East of Calke Abbey

GV II

Grotto. 1809-10 by Samuel Browne. Red brick faced in tufa. Rubble sandstone. Half domed structure sunk into a hollow, with the remains of stalagmites and stalagtites. Semi-circular enclosure in front formed of boulders and rubblestone. Curved path leads down into the grotto. This has two rustic arches of rubblestone.

Listing NGR: SK3697522697

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Legacy System number:: 82829
Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 10 Derbyshire,

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.