GROTTOS TO WEST OF WARMLEY HOUSE

GROTTOS TO WEST OF WARMLEY HOUSE, TOWER ROAD NORTH

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231552
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1981
List Entry Name:: GROTTOS TO WEST OF WARMLEY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GROTTOS TO WEST OF WARMLEY HOUSE, TOWER ROAD NORTH

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Date:: 1999-08-29
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1231552
Date first listed:: 14-Jul-1981
List Entry Name:: GROTTOS TO WEST OF WARMLEY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GROTTOS TO WEST OF WARMLEY HOUSE, TOWER ROAD NORTH

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:: GROTTOS TO WEST OF WARMLEY HOUSE, TOWER ROAD NORTH

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District:: South Gloucestershire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Siston
National Grid Reference:: ST6688172871

Details

5118 SISTON TOWER ROAD NORTH Grottos to west of Warmley House ST 67 SE 4/228 II GV 2. Mid-late C18. Very attractive and probably more than purely ornamental. Walls and vaults lined with black slag material. Central, formerly domed area with 4 recesses and 4 axial chambers or tunnels, one double to east, one, to west, leading to icehouse (q.v.) with an exit in garden. Two of the vaults have pointed barrels. To west is a wall, against which presumably stood hothouses. Fifteen foot high and about 40 ft long with a slight return to south-west. Four blocked arches filled with patterned brick and slag. Arched doorway to right with brick head, a similar one to left now has wooden lintel. Associated now derelict walls extend as far as tree clad tumulus. The grottos support the terrace to west of Warmley House.

ST6688172871

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic interest in England, Part 1 Avon,

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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.