Grotto And Garden Wall Approximately 20 Metres South Of Frontage Of Holdenhurst is a Grade II listed building in the Somerset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 31 May 1985. Grotto, garden wall.
Grotto And Garden Wall Approximately 20 Metres South Of Frontage Of Holdenhurst
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Somerset
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 31 May 1985
- Type
- Grotto, garden wall
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
ST44NW 10/142
WEDMORE CP CHEDDAR ROAD (East side) Grotto and garden wall approximately 20 metres South of frontage of Holdenhurst
GV II
Grotto and garden wall. Early C19. Rubble, dressed stone and tufa. Eccentric gothick style. Grotto enclosed in small rectangular structure with a parapet, pantile roof, pointed arch door opening to West in an ogee-headed plaster surround with a rosette and shell decoration. To left of door opening a tablet with a lyrical poem inscribed. Interior with a ribbed plaster ceiling incorporating sea shells, corbels carved as heads; small quatrefoil window to East with stained glass. Section of rubble wall extending approximately 20 metres to West of South West corner, 3 metres high, plain dressed coping with some tufa "finials"; a traceried design incorporating sea shells, adjacent an inscribed tablet with a pediment; ogee-headed lancet with stained glass (partially decayed at time of re-survey May 1984) forming a window opening.
Listing NGR: ST4363548031
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