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
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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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