STONE MONUMENT IN KING'S WOOD WARREN AT NGR ST 7565 3695

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056460
Date first listed:: 29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: STONE MONUMENT IN KING'S WOOD WARREN AT NGR ST 7565 3695
Statutory Address:: STONE MONUMENT IN KING'S WOOD WARREN AT NGR ST 7565 3695

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1056460
Date first listed:: 29-Aug-1984
List Entry Name:: STONE MONUMENT IN KING'S WOOD WARREN AT NGR ST 7565 3695
Statutory Address 1:: STONE MONUMENT IN KING'S WOOD WARREN AT NGR ST 7565 3695

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:: STONE MONUMENT IN KING'S WOOD WARREN AT NGR ST 7565 3695

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Brewham
National Grid Reference:: ST7566036951

Details

280/3/48 29-AUG-1984

BREWHAM STONE MONUMENT IN KING'S WOOD WARREN AT NGR ST 7565 3695

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Monument. 1847. Local stone with red brick. PLAN:In the form of a small grotto at the source of the River Brue. EXTERIOR: a rustic stone surround with a keystoned arch. To the right of the keystone are the incised initials and date HRH 1847. Two of the keystones of the sub-arch are missing and the monument is overgrown (November 1983). INTERIOR: has a brick-lined chamber enclosing the spring. HISTORY: Erected by Hugh Richard Hoare of Stourhead, Wiltshire to mark the source of the River Brue. He lived at Stourhead from 1845 and undertook several improvements and construction projects around the estate until his death in 1857. Other buildings on the estate also bear the initials H.R.H. SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: The grotto in King's Wood Warren, built in the mid-C19, is a substantially intact and indicative feature of Victorian landscape design. It is located adjacent to the extensive and complex landscape garden and park of Stourhead in Wiltshire, a Grade I Registered Park and Garden. As a monument, erected by Hugh Richard Hoare, the grotto clearly has close historical associations with Stourhead which was largely developed during the C18 and C19 by the Hoare family. SOURCES: W Phillips, History of Somerset, Volume I Stourhead, Parks and Garden Register Entry, No. 1440

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Phillips, W , History of Somerset

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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.