THE GROTTO, APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH WEST OF FLITWICK MANOR

THE GROTTO, APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH WEST OF FLITWICK MANOR, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321732
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1961
List Entry Name:: THE GROTTO, APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH WEST OF FLITWICK MANOR
Statutory Address:: THE GROTTO, APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH WEST OF FLITWICK MANOR, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1321732
Date first listed:: 23-Jan-1961
List Entry Name:: THE GROTTO, APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH WEST OF FLITWICK MANOR
Statutory Address 1:: THE GROTTO, APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH WEST OF FLITWICK MANOR, CHURCH ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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:: THE GROTTO, APPROXIMATELY 50 METRES SOUTH WEST OF FLITWICK MANOR, CHURCH ROAD

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

District:: Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Flitwick
National Grid Reference:: TL 02906 34098

Details

FLITWICK

TL 029341 CHURCH ROAD

16/27 The Grotto, approx. 50 23.1.61 metres SW of Flitwick Manor

- II

Garden building, called the Grotto. Later C18. Red brick with some vitrified bricks. Main part of each facade has clinker and blue glass cladding with red brick dressings. Takes form of small bridge, the archway room beneath retaining its pebblework decoration to ceiling and floor and to parts of walls. W elevation: Gothic style. Pointed archway flanked by 2 small quatrefoil windows. E elevation: Classical style facade in 3 bays, articulated by brick pilasters which become piers of central round arch. This has brick keystone and impost bands. Flanking bays have round-arched niches. Parapet has brick band at base, stone coping, and vermiculated stone panel to each bay.

(Bedfordshire Record Office: LL 17/284, "Flitwick House, its Gardens, Grounds, etc", a sketch and notebook by J T Brooks.)

Listing NGR: TL0290634098

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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 2 Bedfordshire,

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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.