Grotto to South East of the Old Mill in Melbourne Hall Gardens
GROTTO TO SOUTH EAST OF THE OLD MILL IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, CHURCH CLOSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1334617
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Grotto to South East of the Old Mill in Melbourne Hall Gardens
- Statutory Address:
- GROTTO TO SOUTH EAST OF THE OLD MILL IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, CHURCH CLOSE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1334617
- Date first listed:
- 10-Nov-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Grotto to South East of the Old Mill in Melbourne Hall Gardens
- Statutory Address 1:
- GROTTO TO SOUTH EAST OF THE OLD MILL IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, CHURCH CLOSE
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:
- GROTTO TO SOUTH EAST OF THE OLD MILL IN MELBOURNE HALL GARDENS, CHURCH CLOSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Derbyshire
- District:
- South Derbyshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Melbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- SK3910324845
Details
SK 38/3925 PARISH OF MELBOURNE CHURCH CLOSE
6/88 (East Side)
10.11.67 Grotto to South East of
the Old Mill in
Melbourne Hall Gardens
GV II*
Grotto. Early C19. Red brick covered in tufa, shells and
marble. Low segmental headed alcove with small semi-circular
headed marble niche to back over a small stone pool. Over the
niche is a marble inscription reading
'Rest weary stranger in this shady cave,
And taste, if languid, of the mineral wave,
There's virtue in the draught, for health that flies,
From crowded cities and their smoky skies,
Here lends her power from every glade and hill
Strength to the breeze' C Lamb.
This is a later addition to early C18 garden designed by London
and Wise, gardeners to Queen Anne, for Thomas Coke of Melbourne
Hall. Included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at
Grade I. See item 6/63 for sources.
Listing NGR: SK3910324845
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 83072
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Hussey, C, English Gardens and Landscapes 1700-1750, (1967)
Anthony, J, Gardens of Britain, (1979)
Green, D, Gardener to Queen Anne, (1956)
Kerr, V, Melbourne Hall Gardens, (1984)
Pevsner, N, Williamson, E, The Buildings of England: Derbyshire, (1978)
Country Life in 14 April, (1928), 526
Country Life in 23 September, (1899), 368
Country Life in 7 April, (1928), 492
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 10 Derbyshire,
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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