GROTTO AT BASE OF SOUTH SIDE OF CASTLE MOUND

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1273151
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: GROTTO AT BASE OF SOUTH SIDE OF CASTLE MOUND
Statutory Address:: GROTTO AT BASE OF SOUTH SIDE OF CASTLE MOUND

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Date:: 1999-10-25
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1273151
Date first listed:: 21-Oct-1974
List Entry Name:: GROTTO AT BASE OF SOUTH SIDE OF CASTLE MOUND
Statutory Address 1:: GROTTO AT BASE OF SOUTH SIDE OF CASTLE MOUND

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 AT BASE OF SOUTH SIDE OF CASTLE MOUND

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

District:: Wiltshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Marlborough
National Grid Reference:: SU 18390 68623

Details

MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE 1. 5407 Grotto at base of south side of Castle Mound SU 1868 5/273 II 2. Not long before 1735 when Frances, Countess of Hertford, wrote "without partiality I think (it) is in itself much prettier than that at Twickenham". Flint. Stone band. Domical vaulted roof. Round-headed niche. The Countess, daughter-in-law of the 6th Duke, created a picturesque garden with a canal and a cascade; of which the grotto is the only relic.

Listing NGR: SU1839068623

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Legacy System number:: 446155
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.