Hydraulic and pneumatic automata, similar to those described by Hero, were created for garden grottoes.

Finished in 1689, it was intended to serve as a bathhouse, habitable pavilion and a garden grotto.

Then he recognized the place for what it was - one of the garden grottoes set into the riverbank.

The garden grotto, c. 1751-53 and the estate park itself are both recorded on the Register as a Grade II* listed buildings.

The estate includes a landscaped park and recreational grounds with scattered garden ornaments, a garden grotto, a serpentine lake, and a large avenue of beech trees.

The Baroque castle houses an impressive stairway, an indoor garden grotto and a collection of paintings that is worth seeing.

The banquet served by Ovid's Achelous offered a prototype for Italian midday feasts in the fountain-cooled shade of garden grottoes.

In England, an early garden grotto was built at Wilton House in the 1630s, probably by Isaac de Caus.

But in this production, suddenly, the walls part, the guests disperse, and Lucia is returned to her garden grotto.

Grade II* listed status was given to the garden in 1984, and the house and its two garden grottoes became Grade II* listed in 1987.