Grotto In Arboretum is a Grade II listed building in the Peak District National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 June 1987. Grotto, summer house.
Grotto In Arboretum
- WRENN ID
- stranded-column-wren
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Peak District National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 June 1987
- Type
- Grotto, summer house
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
PARISH OF CHATSWORTH CHATSWORTH GARDENS SK 2669 6/79 Grotto in Arboretum II Grotto with summer house above. 1798 by White Watson. Remodelled in 1820 at a cost of £428. Sandstone, cement and timber. Welsh slate roofs. Grotto constructed of massive sandstone boulders, built into the hillside with a curving front. Roughly round-arched entrance. Rectangular room behind with coursed squared sandstone walls and pitched slate roof. Circular rotunda behind with pitted finish to the walls. Surmounted by a rustic timber summer house of eight tree trunks supporting a conical slate roof. Latticework balustrade of roughly prepared branches. The Gardens and Park are included on the Gardens Register at Grade I.
Listing NGR: SK2640569550
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