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

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  Sussex: East with Brighton and Hove (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)