Stowe House - Listed Status

Listed Status

Stowe has one of the largest concentrations of grade I listed buildings in England. There are separate grade I listings in place for:

• The house
• The arches at each end of the north front of the house
• Dido's Cave
• The equestrian statue of George I to the north of the house
• Lord Cobham's Column
• Queen Caroline's Monument
• The Boycott Pavilions
• The Cascade
• The Congreve Monument
• The Corinthian Arch
• The Doric Arch
• The Gothic Temple
• The Grenville Column
• The Hermitage
• The Lake Pavilions
• The Oxford Bridge
• The Oxford Gate
• The Palladian Bridge
• The Queens Temple
• The Rotondo
• The Shell Bridge and Captain Cook's Monument
• The Temple of Ancient Virtue
• The Temple of British Worthies
• The Temple of Concord and Victory
• The Temple of Friendship
• The Temple of Venus
• The Wolfe Obelisk

This is nearly 0.5% of the approximately 6,000 grade I listings in England and Wales. The other historic buildings in the garden and park are listed grade II* or grade II.