DAM BETWEEN UPPER AND LOWER LAKES, 200 METRES SOUTH OF PONDSMEAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345196
Date first listed:: 21-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: DAM BETWEEN UPPER AND LOWER LAKES, 200 METRES SOUTH OF PONDSMEAD
Statutory Address:: DAM BETWEEN UPPER AND LOWER LAKES, 200 METRES SOUTH OF PONDSMEAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1345196
Date first listed:: 21-Sep-1984
List Entry Name:: DAM BETWEEN UPPER AND LOWER LAKES, 200 METRES SOUTH OF PONDSMEAD
Statutory Address 1:: DAM BETWEEN UPPER AND LOWER LAKES, 200 METRES SOUTH OF PONDSMEAD

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: DAM BETWEEN UPPER AND LOWER LAKES, 200 METRES SOUTH OF PONDSMEAD

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

District:: Somerset (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Ashwick
National Grid Reference:: ST 63480 46944

Details

ST64NW ASHWlCK CP OAKHILL

1/22 Dam between upper and lower lakes, 200 metres South of Pondsmead

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GV II

Dam containing hermit's cell, various grottoes, a tunnel, a staircase, and a ruined arch, masked by a fictive cliff. C18. Rough hewn and random laid rock, mostly Tufa, forming picturesque grottoes and ruins. Vaulted hermit's Cell approached from landing stage, contains stone seats and table, dam extends to sluice arrangement concealing subsiduary grottoes and a tunnel. Romantic winding stairs to upper level. An unusually complete survival.

Listing NGR: ST6348046944

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 266438
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.