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Latitude: 51.3996 / 51°23'58"N
Longitude: -2.7606 / 2°45'38"W
OS Eastings: 347181
OS Northings: 167009
OS Grid: ST471670
Mapcode National: GBR JH.R494
Mapcode Global: VH88Y.32FV
Plus Code: 9C3V96XQ+VP
Entry Name: Grotto and Entrances Flanking and Below Road About 50 Metres North East of Brockley Hall
Listing Date: 11 February 1985
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1199758
English Heritage Legacy ID: 350217
ID on this website: 101199758
Location: Brockley, North Somerset, BS48
County: North Somerset
Civil Parish: Brockley
Built-Up Area: Brockley
Traditional County: Somerset
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Somerset
Tagged with: Grotto
ST 46 NE BROCKLEY BROCKLEY LANE
Grotto and entrances flanking
24/4D and below road about fifty
metres north-east of Brockley
Hall.
GV II
Grotto and entrances. c1800. Rubble, dashed stucco, freestone. A tunnel linking
main garden to decorative walled garden. A sinuous ramp descends between dry
stone walls, it is flanked at ground level by a pair of sphynxes, a segmental
arch tunnel is entered through a double arch, above the entrance is a plaque
with Latin inscription: "QUIS QUIS HUC ACCEDIS/QUOD TIBI HORRENDUM VIDETUR/MIHI
AMOENUM EST/SI DELECTA MANEAS/SI TAEDAT ABEAS/UTRUM QUE GRATUM". Within the tunnel,
which still bears remnants of stucco dashed with quartz chips, are 3 segmental
headed niches, 2 are now empty, but one contains an odalisque, somewhat damaged;
at the far side, 14 steps rise as a dog-leg between dry stone walls. This
is the surviving fragment of a large collection of statuary and garden ornaments
which adorned the Smyth-Piggott estate at Brockley Hall, which was itself more
art repository then residence.
Listing NGR: ST4693367342
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