Double Cell at the Dell to North of Goodwood House

DOUBLE CELL AT THE DELL TO NORTH OF GOODWOOD HOUSE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1389302
Date first listed:
09-Oct-2000
List Entry Name:
Double Cell at the Dell to North of Goodwood House
Statutory Address:
DOUBLE CELL AT THE DELL TO NORTH OF GOODWOOD HOUSE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1389302
Date first listed:
09-Oct-2000
List Entry Name:
Double Cell at the Dell to North of Goodwood House
Statutory Address 1:
DOUBLE CELL AT THE DELL TO NORTH OF GOODWOOD HOUSE

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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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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DOUBLE CELL AT THE DELL TO NORTH OF GOODWOOD HOUSE

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

County:
West Sussex
District:
Chichester (District Authority)
Parish:
Westhampnett
National Park:
South Downs
National Grid Reference:
SU 88661 09054

Details

SU 80 NE
1080/13/10043
09-OCT-00

WESTHAMPNETT
GOODWOOD PARK
Double cell at the Dell to north of Goodwood House

GV
II

Garden feature. Circa 1730, for the second Duke of Richmond.
Rubblestone with stone rear wall and brick lining set into earth bank. At each side, an entrance to a curved passage which returns to lead into a cell. The two cells are divided by a brick party-wall with rectangular communicating opening. Each cell has a vaulted roof with central circular roof-light and triangular-headed lantern niches.

This is one of several structures set around the bowl of a man-made amphitheatre and all of which were constructed for the second Duke of Richmond as part of his renowned menagerie. It is believed that birds or animals were kept in it.

T J McCann, 'Much troubled with very rude company...'. The 2nd Duke of Richmond's Menagerie at Goodwood?, Sussex Archaeological Collections, 132 (1994), pp. 143-9.

Listing NGR: SU8866109054

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Legacy System number:
487937
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
McCann, T J, Sussex Archaeological Collections in Much Troubled With Very Rude Company... The 2nd Duke of Richmond's Menagerie at Goodwood, Vol. 132, (1994), 143-9

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Double Cell at the Dell to North of Goodwood House

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