Small Cascade And 2 Lakes About 50 Metres West Of Stable Block Attached To South Of Dyrham House is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 August 1985. Landscape feature.
Small Cascade And 2 Lakes About 50 Metres West Of Stable Block Attached To South Of Dyrham House
- WRENN ID
- tenth-clay-vermeil
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 15 August 1985
- Type
- Landscape feature
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST 77 NW 5/161
DYRHAM AND HINTON C.P.
DYRHAM PARK
Small cascade and 2 lakes about 50 metres west of Stable Block attached to south of Dyrham House
G.V. II
Small cascade and surrounds to 2 lakes. Late C17/early C18 origin, with later alterations. Limestone. Flight of 15 rusticated stone steps about 2 metres wide, channelling water into a rectangular pool about 10 metres by 18 metres with coursed rubble walls and freestone at west wall, water channelled into lower lake about 14 metres west, also with rubble walls and shaped ends east and west, about 30 metres by 60 metres. Cascade and lakes shown on Kip's view of Dyrham and the water garden of 1712; the lakes may have been reduced in size since that date and the lower cascade removed. (Sources: Verey, D. : Buildings of England Gloucestershire : The Cotswolds. 1970. Kenworthy-Browne, J. : Dyrham Park. 1983. Country Life 14, 434-441, XL 546-552, CXXXI 335-339 and CXXXI 396-399).
Listing NGR: ST7406575740
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