Cascade and Grottoes at North End of Lake

CASCADE AND GROTTOES AT NORTH END OF LAKE

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1253106
Date first listed:
31-Jul-1986
Statutory Address:
CASCADE AND GROTTOES AT NORTH END OF LAKE
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1253106
Date first listed:
31-Jul-1986
Statutory Address 1:
CASCADE AND GROTTOES AT NORTH END OF LAKE

Location

Statutory Address:
CASCADE AND GROTTOES AT NORTH END OF LAKE

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

District:
Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Derry Hill & Studley
National Grid Reference:
ST 97940 70311

Details

ST 97 SE CALNE WITHOUT BOWOOD

2/20 Cascade and grottoes at north end of lake

GV II*

Cascade and associated walls, embankments and tunnel, 1785-7 by Hon. C. Hamilton of Painshill and J. Lane of Tisbury. Cyclopean rockwork in picturesque manner with several outflows over high main outfall, embankment with grotto to south and sunken path to north lined with rockwork, passing under high rustic arch adjacent to cascade and extending back to east past entry to serpentine tunnel that emerges above head of cascade. Rustic stone grotto on south side west of cascade. An outstanding example of picturesque design. (N. Pevsner, Wiltshire, 1975, 122; Country Life, 7.9.1972)

Listing NGR: ST9794070311

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436240
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Sources

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Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 122
Country Life in 7 September, (1972)

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