CAVE WITH SPRING AND ROCKERY ABOUT 45 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF WALLED GARDEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1091366
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: CAVE WITH SPRING AND ROCKERY ABOUT 45 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF WALLED GARDEN
Statutory Address:: CAVE WITH SPRING AND ROCKERY ABOUT 45 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF WALLED GARDEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1091366
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: CAVE WITH SPRING AND ROCKERY ABOUT 45 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF WALLED GARDEN
Statutory Address 1:: CAVE WITH SPRING AND ROCKERY ABOUT 45 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF WALLED GARDEN

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

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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:: CAVE WITH SPRING AND ROCKERY ABOUT 45 METRES SOUTH OF SOUTH WEST CORNER OF WALLED GARDEN

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County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Highnam
National Grid Reference:: SO 79196 19221

Details

HIGHNAM SO 7819-7919 9/38 Cave with spring and rockery, about 45m south of south-west corner of walled garden, Highnam Court GV II Cave with 'spring', rockwork above and adjoining island in lake. Mid C19 by Pulham for T. Gambier-Parry. Pulhamite, a form of artificial stone. Large, irregular pile of 'boulders', rockwork surround to entry to cave, from which emerges a stream, fed by lake higher up in garden. Path at lake level, to left, winds round up a pile of 'rocks' to platform over, with behind a further wall of 'rocks' to enclose space above cave. In front small flat area on edge of lake, narrow space of water, irregular, romantic pile of 'rocks' in lake, with plants. Forms important part of garden designed by Pulham, garden considered one of best and largest surviving examples of his work. (F. Festing, article in Garden History, XII; Country Life, article in 1899 volume; article in Autumn, 1985 newsletter of Georgian Group in Gloucester and Avon)

Listing NGR: SO7919619221

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Sources

Books and journals
'Country Life' in 13 May, (1899)
'Newsletter of the Georgian Group in Gloucester and Avon' in Newsletter of the Georgian Group in Gloucester and Avon, (1985)
'Garden History' in Garden History, , Vol. 12, ()

Legal

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