Cascade And Grottoes At North End Of Lake is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 July 1986. Landscape feature.

Cascade And Grottoes At North End Of Lake

WRENN ID
narrow-floor-river
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Country
England
Date first listed
31 July 1986
Type
Landscape feature
Source
Historic England listing

Description

ST 97 SE CALNE WITHOUT BOWOOD

2/20 Cascade and grottoes at north end of lake

GV II*

Cascade and associated walls, embankments and tunnel, 1785-7 by Hon. C. Hamilton of Painshill and J. Lane of Tisbury. Cyclopean rockwork in picturesque manner with several outflows over high main outfall, embankment with grotto to south and sunken path to north lined with rockwork, passing under high rustic arch adjacent to cascade and extending back to east past entry to serpentine tunnel that emerges above head of cascade. Rustic stone grotto on south side west of cascade. An outstanding example of picturesque design. (N. Pevsner, Wiltshire, 1975, 122; Country Life, 7.9.1972)

Listing NGR: ST9794070311

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