Grotto Underpass is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. Underpass.

Grotto Underpass

WRENN ID: burning-gallery-dust
Grade: II
Local Planning Authority: Wiltshire
Country: England
Type: Underpass
Source: Historic England listing

Description

STOURTON WITH GASPER STOURHEAD GARDENS ST 73 SE (east side) 6/144 Grotto Underpass GV II

Underpass for path to Temple of Apollo (q.v.) below Zeals Road. 1760-65, for Henry Hoare. Curving tunnel with rustic rockwork portals with large voussoirs, path continues up hill through cutting with a single rockwork arch over. Probably contemporary with the Rockwork bridge over the Zeals road (q.v.), being part of the same route to the Temple of Apollo. (K. Woodbridge, The Stourhead Landscape, 1982)

Listing NGR: ST7746933888

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