Grotto to North End of Lake in Claremont Landscape Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Elmbridge local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 May 1969. Grotto.
Grotto to North End of Lake in Claremont Landscape Garden
- WRENN ID
- tall-attic-gorse
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Elmbridge
- Constituency
- Esher and Walton MP: Monica Harding (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 May 1969
- Type
- Grotto
- Address
- Grotto to North End of Lake in Claremont Landscape Garden, Grotto to South End of Lake in Claremont Landscape Garden, Portsmouth Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 129 629
- Coordinates
- 51.35403, -0.37973
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The grotto at the south end of the lake in Claremont Landscape Garden is an early 18th-century structure. It is built from various types of rocks and boulders, with flint and earth infill, standing approximately 20 feet high. The grotto features four arched entrances facing the lakeside and has three rock pinnacles at the top. Inside, there is a roughly arched chamber behind the entrance, which has an earth and stone floor.
Local climate
Grotto to North End of Lake in Claremont Landscape Garden 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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