The Grotto, Approximately 50 Metres South West Of Flitwick Manor is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 January 1961. Garden building.
The Grotto, Approximately 50 Metres South West Of Flitwick Manor
- WRENN ID
- gilded-steeple-quill
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Central Bedfordshire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1961
- Type
- Garden building
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
FLITWICK
TL 029341 CHURCH ROAD
16/27 The Grotto, approx. 50 23.1.61 metres SW of Flitwick Manor
- II
Garden building, called the Grotto. Later C18. Red brick with some vitrified bricks. Main part of each facade has clinker and blue glass cladding with red brick dressings. Takes form of small bridge, the archway room beneath retaining its pebblework decoration to ceiling and floor and to parts of walls. W elevation: Gothic style. Pointed archway flanked by 2 small quatrefoil windows. E elevation: Classical style facade in 3 bays, articulated by brick pilasters which become piers of central round arch. This has brick keystone and impost bands. Flanking bays have round-arched niches. Parapet has brick band at base, stone coping, and vermiculated stone panel to each bay.
(Bedfordshire Record Office: LL 17/284, "Flitwick House, its Gardens, Grounds, etc", a sketch and notebook by J T Brooks.)
Listing NGR: TL0290634098
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