THE GROTTO, ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTH EAST OF MENABILLY HOUSE AT POLRIDMOUTH

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210582
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1951
List Entry Name:: THE GROTTO, ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTH EAST OF MENABILLY HOUSE AT POLRIDMOUTH
Statutory Address:: THE GROTTO, ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTH EAST OF MENABILLY HOUSE AT POLRIDMOUTH

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1210582
Date first listed:: 13-Mar-1951
List Entry Name:: THE GROTTO, ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTH EAST OF MENABILLY HOUSE AT POLRIDMOUTH
Statutory Address 1:: THE GROTTO, ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTH EAST OF MENABILLY HOUSE AT POLRIDMOUTH

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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: THE GROTTO, ABOUT 1/2 MILE SOUTH EAST OF MENABILLY HOUSE AT POLRIDMOUTH

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

District:: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Fowey
National Grid Reference:: SX1029250517

Details

FOWEY 1. MENABILLY 1584A The Grotto, about 1/2 mile south east of Menabilly House at Polridmouth SX 15 SW 11/183 13.3.51.

II

2. Late C18 octagonal "folly". Built of rounded quartz bolders with joints snecked with sea shells. Inside walls lined with shells and crystals ores and polished stones but most of these have been removed. 2 blocked 4-centred arch openings. Small gable heads to each wall. Now roofless and in poor state.

Listing NGR: SX1029250517

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 395130
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 8 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly,

Legal

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