GROTTO AND GARDEN WALL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH OF FRONTAGE OF HOLDENHURST

GROTTO AND GARDEN WALL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH OF FRONTAGE OF HOLDENHURST, CHEDDAR ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262175
Date first listed:: 30-May-1985
List Entry Name:: GROTTO AND GARDEN WALL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH OF FRONTAGE OF HOLDENHURST
Statutory Address:: GROTTO AND GARDEN WALL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH OF FRONTAGE OF HOLDENHURST, CHEDDAR ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262175
Date first listed:: 30-May-1985
List Entry Name:: GROTTO AND GARDEN WALL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH OF FRONTAGE OF HOLDENHURST
Statutory Address 1:: GROTTO AND GARDEN WALL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH OF FRONTAGE OF HOLDENHURST, CHEDDAR 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 AND GARDEN WALL APPROXIMATELY 20 METRES SOUTH OF FRONTAGE OF HOLDENHURST, CHEDDAR ROAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Wedmore
National Grid Reference:: ST4363548031

Details

ST44NW 10/142

WEDMORE CP CHEDDAR ROAD (East side) Grotto and garden wall approximately 20 metres South of frontage of Holdenhurst

GV II

Grotto and garden wall. Early C19. Rubble, dressed stone and tufa. Eccentric gothick style. Grotto enclosed in small rectangular structure with a parapet, pantile roof, pointed arch door opening to West in an ogee-headed plaster surround with a rosette and shell decoration. To left of door opening a tablet with a lyrical poem inscribed. Interior with a ribbed plaster ceiling incorporating sea shells, corbels carved as heads; small quatrefoil window to East with stained glass. Section of rubble wall extending approximately 20 metres to West of South West corner, 3 metres high, plain dressed coping with some tufa "finials"; a traceried design incorporating sea shells, adjacent an inscribed tablet with a pediment; ogee-headed lancet with stained glass (partially decayed at time of re-survey May 1984) forming a window opening.

Listing NGR: ST4363548031

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Legacy System number:: 435180
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.