Grotto South East of Oldway Mansion
GROTTO SOUTH EAST OF OLDWAY MANSION, TORQUAY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195209
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Grotto South East of Oldway Mansion
- Statutory Address:
- GROTTO SOUTH EAST OF OLDWAY MANSION, TORQUAY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1195209
- Date first listed:
- 10-Mar-1988
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 25-Oct-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Grotto South East of Oldway Mansion
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROTTO SOUTH EAST OF OLDWAY MANSION, TORQUAY ROAD
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:
- GROTTO SOUTH EAST OF OLDWAY MANSION, TORQUAY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Torbay (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- SX 88829 61388
Details
PAIGNTON
SX8861 TORQUAY ROAD 1947-1/4/107 (West side) 10/03/88 Grotto south-east of Oldway Mansion (Formerly Listed as: Grotto in grounds of Oldway Mansion)
GV II
Grotto. 1907-1910, contemporary with the remodelling of Oldway Mansion (qv) for Paris Singer. Grounds laid out by A Duchesne, the leading French formal landscape architect. Steel and concrete construction grotto, clad with local grey limestone slabs; serpentine stream lined with concrete with heaps of local stone. Rockery above the grotto includes pitched stone paths. The grotto consists of irregular caverns overlooking a pond, fed from a stream that drips water across the cavern openings. Old list description refers to blocked openings at either end for a walk through with views out. Some of the planting may be original. A serpentine stream, crossed by flat stone bridges leaves the pond and feeds a larger pond with a rockery alongside. Part of the setting of Oldway Mansion and a foil to the more formal gardens closer to the house. Group value with other garden items. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Devon: London: 1952-1989: 839-40).
Listing NGR: SX8882961388
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 383872
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Devon, (1989), 839-840
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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