THE GROTTO APPROXIMATELY 170 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF THE DURDANS

THE GROTTO APPROXIMATELY 170 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF THE DURDANS, WOODCOTE END

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232254
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: THE GROTTO APPROXIMATELY 170 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF THE DURDANS
Statutory Address:: THE GROTTO APPROXIMATELY 170 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF THE DURDANS, WOODCOTE END

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1232254
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1986
List Entry Name:: THE GROTTO APPROXIMATELY 170 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF THE DURDANS
Statutory Address 1:: THE GROTTO APPROXIMATELY 170 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF THE DURDANS, WOODCOTE END

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:: THE GROTTO APPROXIMATELY 170 METRES TO SOUTH EAST OF THE DURDANS, WOODCOTE END

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

County:: Surrey
District:: Epsom and Ewell (District Authority)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 20893 59302

Details

EPSOM 1. 5385 WOODCOTE END (east side, off) The Grotto approx. 170 metres to south-east of the Durdans TQ 2059 34/788 II

2. Grotto. Probably early C18. Earth-covered brick and flint. Set in mound, round archway gives access to domed grotto inside which are arched, coved, statue niches. Celia Fiennes described a grotto at Durdans c. 1712 "an arch entirely dark, but at the entrance it is so large as 6 arched seates, and between carv'd stone very fine of all sorts of flowers figures fruites, the pillars or peers pretty broad" (p 235). Christopher Morris Macdonald & Co, eds, The Illustrated journeys of Celia Fiennes 1685-1712.

Listing NGR: TQ2089359302

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Legacy System number:: 407579
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.