GROTTO IN GARDEN OF AND TO WEST OF DENTON HOUSE

GROTTO IN GARDEN OF AND TO WEST OF DENTON HOUSE, DENTON HILL

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1049568
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1959
List Entry Name:: GROTTO IN GARDEN OF AND TO WEST OF DENTON HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GROTTO IN GARDEN OF AND TO WEST OF DENTON HOUSE, DENTON HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1049568
Date first listed:: 07-Dec-1959
List Entry Name:: GROTTO IN GARDEN OF AND TO WEST OF DENTON HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GROTTO IN GARDEN OF AND TO WEST OF DENTON HOUSE, DENTON HILL

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GROTTO IN GARDEN OF AND TO WEST OF DENTON HOUSE, DENTON HILL

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

County:: Norfolk
District:: South Norfolk (District Authority)
Parish:: Denton
National Grid Reference:: TM 28404 86968

Details

1. 5321 DENTON DENTON HILL Grotto in garden of and to west of Denton House TM 28 NE 16/7 7.12.59

II

2. Dated 1770. Small grotto in garden of Denton House. Flint front wall with stone dressings. This facade has low pedimented gable with large flanking turrets and 3 pointed arches with key blocks. Inside: an arch leads to a small circular chamber which was possibly added later. This would accord with the attribution to Stackhouse Thompson who is said to have collected the shells and coral from the Great Barrier Reef. The chamber has colonnade supporting a dome encrusted with shells, fossils, coral, polished stones and mirrors, and has a lantern at top, and niches in the walls. Red brick exterior walls at rear. Barbara Jones "Follies and Grottos".

Listing NGR: TM2840486968

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Legacy System number:: 225218
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Jones, B, Follies and Grottoes, (1974)

Legal

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