GROTTO AT PETERSCOURT (25 METRES TO EAST SOUTH EAST OF HOUSE)

GROTTO AT PETERSCOURT (25 METRES TO EAST SOUTH EAST OF HOUSE), WALKERN ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101375
Date first listed:: 31-May-1984
List Entry Name:: GROTTO AT PETERSCOURT (25 METRES TO EAST SOUTH EAST OF HOUSE)
Statutory Address:: GROTTO AT PETERSCOURT (25 METRES TO EAST SOUTH EAST OF HOUSE), WALKERN ROAD

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Date:: 2001-10-17
Reference:: IOE01/04875/29
Rights:: © Mr A. Gude. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1101375
Date first listed:: 31-May-1984
List Entry Name:: GROTTO AT PETERSCOURT (25 METRES TO EAST SOUTH EAST OF HOUSE)
Statutory Address 1:: GROTTO AT PETERSCOURT (25 METRES TO EAST SOUTH EAST OF HOUSE), WALKERN ROAD

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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 AT PETERSCOURT (25 METRES TO EAST SOUTH EAST OF HOUSE), WALKERN ROAD

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Benington
National Grid Reference:: TL 29770 23897

Details

Benington TL 2923 BENINGTON WALKERN ROAD (west side)

11/6 Grotto at Peterscourt (25m to ESE of house)

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GV II

Grotto-maze. Early C19 incorporating C18 red brick structure at NW corner. Brick-kiln wasters and stucco, covered in ivy. Open at top. A large maze with winding passages and chambers off with pools and central viewing mound, all built of grotto-work within an irregular enclosure of high brick walls. Stonework from a mullioned window set in wall by gated entrance on W.

Listing NGR: TL2977023897

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 159636
Legacy System:: LBS

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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.