Grotto at Frieston House is a Grade II listed building in the South Kesteven local planning authority area, England. Grotto.
Grotto at Frieston House
- WRENN ID
- empty-storey-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Kesteven
- Constituency
- Grantham and Bourne MP: Gareth Davies (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Grotto
- Address
- Grotto at Frieston House, Hough Road, Caythorpe
- OS grid reference
- SK 937 476
- Coordinates
- 53.0175, -0.60361
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The grotto at Frieston House is an early 19th-century structure made of coursed limestone rubble. It features a brick arch with a keystone and a slate roof that has castellations at the rear. The grotto has a wide central brick Rustic arch, flanked by single brick pointed-headed blank niches. The recessed central bay is decorated with pebbles and rock-faced hard stone blocks, arranged horizontally on the splayed reveals and in the shape of a pointed arch on the rear panel. Above, a vault with three compartments, also lined with pebbles and rocks, rises above a brick string course. Inside, there is a wooden bench in the Rustic style. This grotto is included in the listing for its group value only.
Local climate
Grotto at Frieston House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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