GROTTO AT OS 370229 ON NORTH SIDE OF CHINA HOUSE POND

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096493
Date first listed:: 06-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: GROTTO AT OS 370229 ON NORTH SIDE OF CHINA HOUSE POND
Statutory Address:: GROTTO AT OS 370229 ON NORTH SIDE OF CHINA HOUSE POND

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1096493
Date first listed:: 06-Jan-1987
List Entry Name:: GROTTO AT OS 370229 ON NORTH SIDE OF CHINA HOUSE POND
Statutory Address 1:: GROTTO AT OS 370229 ON NORTH SIDE OF CHINA HOUSE POND

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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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: GROTTO AT OS 370229 ON NORTH SIDE OF CHINA HOUSE POND

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:: SK 36995 22915

Details

PARISH OF CALKE CALKE PARK SK 32 SE 4/29 Grotto at OS 370229 on North Side of China House Pond II

Grotto. Mid C18. Red brick, coursed rubble sandstone and squared sandstone. Built into the bank at the side of the lake with its facade towards the lake. Elevation originally symmetrical, right hand part now collapsed. Broad central round arch with voussoirs of alternating size. Flanked by tall rectangular window openings with stone jambs, sills and lintels. To the left again a projecting bay with a similar but smaller round-arched opening, into a recess. Small window in the return wall. Inside is a semi-circular chamber with brick half dome, originally plastered.

Listing NGR: SK3699522915

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 82834
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

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

Legal

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