Survey Data
Reg No
15302010
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural, Social
Original Use
Walled garden
Date
1800 - 1840
Coordinates
246218, 269583
Date Recorded
30/07/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Remains of two walled gardens on rectangular plan, originally laid out c.1820, now heavily overgrown. Site bounded by roughly coursed limestone rubble walls with stone coping over. Brick-lined walls to interior on the north and west sides. There are remnants of brick-built walls and structures within the garden, now overgrown. Original entrance to west side of garden having cast-iron gates and modern replacement gates to east side. Gothic-arched pedestrian entrance to south wall. Originally part of Kinturk Demesne (15302016).
Appraisal
A substantial former walled garden that originally served Kinturk House (15302016). It is of particular historical importance as it provides an insight into the agricultural and horticultural activities required to service a large country house in the mid nineteenth-century. It is possible to reconstruct the original layout of the garden from surviving evidence and from the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map (1838). A wall running east-west divided the garden in two. The section to the north was originally an orchard as indicted by the brick-lined, south-facing walls used to retain heat. The area to the south (and possibly to the north) seems to have been laid out as a kitchen garden. Abutted to the south of the dividing wall were an series of structures, probably greenhouses and storage sheds, now ruinous. The remains of a brick-built water feature and fountain to the south-west corner possibly indicates the presence of a small 'pleasure garden' to this part of the site. This walled garden forms an important part of the former Kinturk House Demesne and strongly contributes to the historic character of the area.