GROTTO CIRCA 25 METRES SOUTH OF BLEBY HOUSE

GROTTO CIRCA 25 METRES SOUTH OF BLEBY HOUSE, ABBEY TERRACE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1340246
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1960
List Entry Name:: GROTTO CIRCA 25 METRES SOUTH OF BLEBY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: GROTTO CIRCA 25 METRES SOUTH OF BLEBY HOUSE, ABBEY TERRACE

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Date:: 2002-06-19
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1340246
Date first listed:: 04-Jul-1960
Date of most recent amendment:: 31-Oct-1984
List Entry Name:: GROTTO CIRCA 25 METRES SOUTH OF BLEBY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: GROTTO CIRCA 25 METRES SOUTH OF BLEBY HOUSE, ABBEY TERRACE

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 CIRCA 25 METRES SOUTH OF BLEBY HOUSE, ABBEY TERRACE

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

County:: Gloucestershire
District:: Tewkesbury (District Authority)
Parish:: Winchcombe
National Grid Reference:: SP 02513 28221

Details

SP 02 28 WINCHCOMBE ABBEY TERRACE (south side) 4/2 Grotto c.25 metres south of Bleby House (formerly listed as 4.7.60 Grotto in garden)

- II Folly. c1700. Rough limestone and tufa, remains of stone slate roofing. A small circular grotto built into south sloping gardens, described by Barbara Jones as follows: '.... small domed round grotto, about 10 ft across made of rock, tufa and shells with a snaggle-toothed ceiling ... very early date, and side windows made of natural holes in two big rocks' (Barbara Jones, Follies and Grottoes, 1974 2nd Edn). The grotto is reputed to stand over the position where St Kenelm's coffin was found and is especially sig- nificant for this very early date.

Listing NGR: SP0251028223

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Legacy System number:: 133904
Legacy System:: LBS

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Jones, B, Follies and Grottoes, (1974)

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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.