Cascade and Grottoes at North End of Lake
CASCADE AND GROTTOES AT NORTH END OF LAKE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253106
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cascade and Grottoes at North End of Lake
- Statutory Address:
- CASCADE AND GROTTOES AT NORTH END OF LAKE
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- Date:
- 2004-02-19
- Reference:
- IOE01/11553/10
- Rights:
- © Mr B.J.W. Heath. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1253106
- Date first listed:
- 31-Jul-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Cascade and Grottoes at North End of Lake
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASCADE AND GROTTOES AT NORTH END OF LAKE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436240
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Wiltshire, (1975), 122
Country Life in 7 September, (1972)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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