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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Overview
- 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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- 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
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 AND ENTRANCES FLANKING AND BELOW ROAD ABOUT 50 METRES NORTH EAST OF BROCKLEY HALL, BROCKLEY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- 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.
GV II
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 350217
- Legacy System:
- LBS
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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