GROTTO AND ENTRANCES FLANKING AND BELOW ROAD ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH EAST OF BROCKLEY HALL

GROTTO AND ENTRANCES FLANKING AND BELOW ROAD ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH EAST OF BROCKLEY HALL, BROCKLEY LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1199758
Date first listed:: 11-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: GROTTO AND ENTRANCES FLANKING AND BELOW ROAD ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH EAST OF BROCKLEY HALL
Statutory Address:: GROTTO AND ENTRANCES FLANKING AND BELOW ROAD ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH EAST OF BROCKLEY HALL, BROCKLEY LANE

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Date:: 2001-09-01
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1199758
Date first listed:: 11-Feb-1985
List Entry Name:: GROTTO AND ENTRANCES FLANKING AND BELOW ROAD ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH EAST OF BROCKLEY HALL
Statutory Address 1:: GROTTO AND ENTRANCES FLANKING AND BELOW ROAD ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH EAST OF BROCKLEY HALL, BROCKLEY LANE

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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 AND ENTRANCES FLANKING AND BELOW ROAD ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH EAST OF BROCKLEY HALL, BROCKLEY LANE

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District:: North Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Brockley
National Grid Reference:: ST 47181 67009

Details

ST 46 NE BROCKLEY BROCKLEY LANE Grotto and entrances flanking 24/4D and below road about fifty metres north-east of Brockley Hall.

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Grotto and entrances. c1800. Rubble, dashed stucco, freestone. A tunnel linking main garden to decorative walled garden. A sinuous ramp descends between dry stone walls, it is flanked at ground level by a pair of sphynxes, a segmental arch tunnel is entered through a double arch, above the entrance is a plaque with Latin inscription: "QUIS QUIS HUC ACCEDIS/QUOD TIBI HORRENDUM VIDETUR/MIHI AMOENUM EST/SI DELECTA MANEAS/SI TAEDAT ABEAS/UTRUM QUE GRATUM". Within the tunnel, which still bears remnants of stucco dashed with quartz chips, are 3 segmental headed niches, 2 are now empty, but one contains an odalisque, somewhat damaged; at the far side, 14 steps rise as a dog-leg between dry stone walls. This is the surviving fragment of a large collection of statuary and garden ornaments which adorned the Smyth-Piggott estate at Brockley Hall, which was itself more art repository then residence.

Listing NGR: ST4693367342

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Legacy System number:: 350217
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.