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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26380562

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Liverpool: Pevsner City Guide (Pevsner Architectural Guides: City Guides)
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cork: City and County (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Ireland)