GROTTO ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH WEST OF WALLED GARDEN

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1171384
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: GROTTO ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH WEST OF WALLED GARDEN
Statutory Address:: GROTTO ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH WEST OF WALLED GARDEN

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1171384
Date first listed:: 26-Nov-1986
List Entry Name:: GROTTO ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH WEST OF WALLED GARDEN
Statutory Address 1:: GROTTO ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH WEST OF WALLED GARDEN

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:: GROTTO ABOUT 10 METRES SOUTH WEST OF WALLED GARDEN

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Highnam
National Grid Reference:: SO 79182 19265

Details

HIGHNAM SO 7819-7919 9/37 Grotto about 10m south-west of walled garden, Highnam Court GV II Grotto. Mid C19 by Pulham for T. Gambier-Parry. Pulhamite (form of artificial stone); render on brickwork. Large, rough heap of 'boulders' rising from by stream, partly overgrown on top. Rough opening in front, with 'stone' lintel over; irregular flight of steps up on left to higher ground behind. Irregular gap on right return to form 'window' for view down stream. Inside semi- circular room, irregular 'stones' as benches round side, concrete roof over. Part of garden designed by Pulham, garden one of largest and best examples of his work surviving. Forms group with cave, other grotto and walled garden (q.v.). (S. 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: SO7918219265

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Legacy System number:: 134328
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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, ()
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 16 Gloucestershire,

Legal

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