GROTTO IN THE GARDEN OF KNOWLE GRANGE (FLATS) INCLUDING ROCKERY, POOL, VASE, PEDESTAL AND SUMMERHOUSE

GROTTO IN THE GARDEN OF KNOWLE GRANGE (FLATS) INCLUDING ROCKERY, POOL, VASE, PEDESTAL AND SUMMERHOUSE, STATION ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1227921
Date first listed:: 12-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: GROTTO IN THE GARDEN OF KNOWLE GRANGE (FLATS) INCLUDING ROCKERY, POOL, VASE, PEDESTAL AND SUMMERHOUSE
Statutory Address:: GROTTO IN THE GARDEN OF KNOWLE GRANGE (FLATS) INCLUDING ROCKERY, POOL, VASE, PEDESTAL AND SUMMERHOUSE, STATION ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1227921
Date first listed:: 12-Oct-1951
List Entry Name:: GROTTO IN THE GARDEN OF KNOWLE GRANGE (FLATS) INCLUDING ROCKERY, POOL, VASE, PEDESTAL AND SUMMERHOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GROTTO IN THE GARDEN OF KNOWLE GRANGE (FLATS) INCLUDING ROCKERY, POOL, VASE, PEDESTAL AND SUMMERHOUSE, STATION ROAD

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 IN THE GARDEN OF KNOWLE GRANGE (FLATS) INCLUDING ROCKERY, POOL, VASE, PEDESTAL AND SUMMERHOUSE, STATION ROAD

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

County:: Devon
District:: East Devon (District Authority)
Parish:: Sidmouth
National Grid Reference:: SY 12068 87721

Details

STATION ROAD 1. 1633 (West Side) Grotto in the garden of Knowle Grange (Flats) including rockery, pool, vase, pedestal and summerhouse SY 1287 1/220 12.10.51. II 2. (Knowle Grange is a modern block of flats). The garden was originally part of the grounds of Knowle Cottage (see Knowle, Sidmouth Urban District Offices, Station Road) and retains a grotto dating from the early C19, probably due to Mr Fish. It has a layout of paths, bays and circular spaces surrounded by rockeries of rustic stone. A pedestal with vase forms the central feature of one enclosure, an oval pool lined with pebbles of another. Axial to these at the south end is a semi circular summerhouse with vaulted roof. It is lined with rose quartz, picked out with a design of black pebbles. A wooden bench with trellis back runs round the interior. Picturesque. Curiosity value.

Listing NGR: SY1206887721

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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.