Shell Grotto At The Dell To North Of Goodwood House is a Grade II listed building in the South Downs National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 October 2000. Garden feature.
Shell Grotto At The Dell To North Of Goodwood House
- WRENN ID
- tenth-footing-kestrel
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Downs National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 October 2000
- Type
- Garden feature
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
SU 80 NE 1080/13/10033 09-OCT-00
WESTHAMPNETT GOODWOOD PARK Shell grotto at the Dell to north of Goodwood House
GV II
Garden feature. Circa 1730, for the second Duke of Richmond. Brick, set in earth bank, with applied shell and pebble cladding and lining (much decayed). Vaulted chamber. Wide round-arched entrance with raised keystone. Interior: blocked circular roof lights; later opening in rear wall; patterned panels discernible.
This is one of several structures set around the bowl of a man-made amphitheatre and all of which were constructed circa 1730 for the second Duke of Richmond as part of his renowned menagerie.
T J McCann, "Much troubled with very rude company...". The 2nd Duke of Richmond's Menagerie at Goodwood", Sussex Archaeological Collections, 132 (1994), pp. 143-9.
Listing NGR: SU8869509099
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