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Cascade and Grottoes at North End of Lake

A Grade II Listed Building in Calne Without, Wiltshire

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.4318 / 51°25'54"N

Longitude: -2.031 / 2°1'51"W

OS Eastings: 397940

OS Northings: 170311

OS Grid: ST979703

Mapcode National: GBR 2T0.3BV

Mapcode Global: VHB41.R84Q

Plus Code: 9C3VCXJ9+PH

Entry Name: Cascade and Grottoes at North End of Lake

Listing Date: 31 July 1986

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1253106

English Heritage Legacy ID: 436240

ID on this website: 101253106

Location: Wiltshire, SN11

County: Wiltshire

Civil Parish: Calne Without

Traditional County: Wiltshire

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire

Church of England Parish: Derry Hill Christ Church

Church of England Diocese: Salisbury

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Description


ST 97 SE CALNE WITHOUT BOWOOD

2/20 Cascade and grottoes at north
end of lake


GV II*

Cascade and associated walls, embankments and tunnel, 1785-7 by
Hon. C. Hamilton of Painshill and J. Lane of Tisbury. Cyclopean
rockwork in picturesque manner with several outflows over high main
outfall, embankment with grotto to south and sunken path to north
lined with rockwork, passing under high rustic arch adjacent to
cascade and extending back to east past entry to serpentine tunnel
that emerges above head of cascade. Rustic stone grotto on south
side west of cascade. An outstanding example of picturesque
design.
(N. Pevsner, Wiltshire, 1975, 122; Country Life, 7.9.1972)


Listing NGR: ST9794070311

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