The Grotto
THE GROTTO
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1114010
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Grotto
- Statutory Address:
- THE GROTTO
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1114010
- Date first listed:
- 23-Jan-1961
- List Entry Name:
- The Grotto
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GROTTO
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE GROTTO
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Woburn
- National Grid Reference:
- SP 96690 32654
Details
SP 9632-9732 WOBURN WOBURN PARK 10/152 23.1.61 The Grotto G V II* Grotto. Circa 1839 for John 6th Duke of Bedford. Random rubble walls of mixed stone types. Small, single-storeyed octagonal structure. Embattled parapet with triangular merlons. Pointed-arched openings to alternate sides. S opening contains part-glazed double doors with ornamental cast iron glazing bars. W and E openings are without glazing, and alterations to lower part of walls indicates they may originally have been doorways. Interior: patterned cobbled floors. Walls and ceiling ornamented with shells, quartz, graphite, etc. the geological speciments brought from Devon and Cornwall. Ceiling is domed, with central stalactite. C Aslet, "Park and Garden Buildings at Woburn", Country Life, April 7th 1983, p.862.
Listing NGR: SP9669032654
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 38255
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Country Life in Country Life, (1983), 862
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 2 Bedfordshire,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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