Grotto by lake c.250 metres to north east of Eythrope Pavilion

Eythrope Park, Eythrope, Aylesbury

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1319276
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: Grotto by lake c.250 metres to north east of Eythrope Pavilion
Statutory Address:: Eythrope Park, Eythrope, Aylesbury

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1319276
Date first listed:: 29-Jan-1985
List Entry Name:: Grotto by lake c.250 metres to north east of Eythrope Pavilion
Statutory Address 1:: Eythrope Park, Eythrope, Aylesbury

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:: Eythrope Park, Eythrope, Aylesbury

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

District:: Buckinghamshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Waddesdon
National Grid Reference:: SP 77141 13910

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 20/07/2020

SP 71 SE 7/112

WADDESDON EYTHROPE Eythrope Park Grotto by lake c.250 metres to north east of Eythrope Pavilion.

(Formerly listed as Grotto by lake c.250 metres to north east of Eythrope Pavilion, EYTHROPE)

II Grotto. Mid C18. Tufa and roughcast with inset pieces of quartz. Forms arch over small inlet of lake. Artificial stalactites, stalagmites and columns. Probably built for Sir William Stanhope as ornament for grounds of former Eythrope House.

Listing NGR: SP7714113910

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Legacy System number:: 42258
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.