Description

SZ 39 NW BOLDRE B3054
Walhampton

14/30 Arcade incorporating
grotto immediately
west of Walhampton
House

GV II

Arcade, including summer dining-room and wall incorporating older grotto.
Grotto C18, rest 1914. Arcade of Portland stone columns and entablature, rest
brick. Arcade is connected to side of music room, with 3m long arcade at right
angles to rest, and main arcade is some 50m long, central 20m being dining-room.
Doric columns and entablature of plain triglyphs with tile-on-edge squares
between, modillioned cornice and low parapet. Dining-room has to each side niche
over-hanging entablature on columns. At far end, at right-angles, stage with
rear wall and flanking walls, one of which connects to arcade. On returns of
flanking walls stone archway. Behind flanking wall to arcade is C18 grotto now
incorporated. This is seen from one archway and has many forms in shell patterns
on walls and vaulted roof of room.

Listing NGR: SZ3337996995

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26387111

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Recommended Books

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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy