Tunnel Entrance 75 Metres South Of Chinese Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Staffordshire Moorlands local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1987. Garden building.
Tunnel Entrance 75 Metres South Of Chinese Garden
- WRENN ID
- shadowed-truss-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Staffordshire Moorlands
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 20 November 1987
- Type
- Garden building
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
BIDDULPH C.P. BIDDULPH GRANGE SJ 85 NE SJ 89235907 7/17 Tunnel entrance 75m south - of Chinese Garden
GV II
Ornamental garden building garden tunnel entrance. 1848-1860, by John Bateman. Random coursed rock-faced natural boulders placed to form a roughly-arched tunnel-entry; side walls of coursed vaulting. 2m high and 12m long, of curved layout. Arched entry to south appears dressed to represent clasped hands to keystone. Forms part of perimeter peram- bulation from the main house through the pinetum and terminated by the Tea House (q.v.). The tunnel is part of the Chinese Garden landscaping formed by the mounding of massive imported local boulders.
Listing NGR: SJ8923259091
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