Kitchen garden walls including The Garden House, the Fruit House and other attached garden buildings approximately 28 metres to south west of Pell Wall

Kitchen garden walls including The Garden House, the Fruit House and other attached garden buildings approximately 28 metres to south west of Pell Wall, Newport Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1190533
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1971
List Entry Name:: Kitchen garden walls including The Garden House, the Fruit House and other attached garden buildings approximately 28 metres to south west of Pell Wall
Statutory Address:: Kitchen garden walls including The Garden House, the Fruit House and other attached garden buildings approximately 28 metres to south west of Pell Wall, Newport Road

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1190533
Date first listed:: 19-Aug-1971
Date of most recent amendment:: 21-Nov-1985
List Entry Name:: Kitchen garden walls including The Garden House, the Fruit House and other attached garden buildings approximately 28 metres to south west of Pell Wall
Statutory Address 1:: Kitchen garden walls including The Garden House, the Fruit House and other attached garden buildings approximately 28 metres to south west of Pell Wall, Newport Road

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For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: Kitchen garden walls including The Garden House, the Fruit House and other attached garden buildings approximately 28 metres to south west of Pell Wall, Newport Road

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Shropshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Sutton upon Tern
National Grid Reference:: SJ 67715 33038

Details

SJ 63 SE 3/123 SUTTON UPON TERN C.P. NEWPORT ROAD (south side) Kitchen garden walls including The Garden House, the Fruit House and other attached garden buildings approximately 28 metres to south west of Pell Wall

(formerly listed as 3 separate items)

20.8.71 and 21.11.85

GV II Kitchen garden walls, attached garden buildings and gardener's house. Circa 1822-28, by Sir John Soane. Some late C19 alterations and additions.

Red brick walls (English bond except for northern length which is in Flemish bond) with grey sandstone coping. Rectangular enclosure approximately 80 x 45 metres with quadrant corners and quadrant link walls to former gardener's house to west. Entrances in the corners of the east and west walls and in the centre to south consisting of round archways with large flush-panelled doors (eight panels with two-panelled tympana) and flanking piers with panelled pendentive dome type stone finials. Similar piers at junction with quadrant link walls to former gardener's house. Northern length of wall higher than rest and further raised in late C19 to accommodate greenhouse on south side. Steps down slope in three lengths. Panelled end piers and stone flue caps with miniature pediments and antefixae of typical Soane design.

Lean to fruit house on north side, in line with former roof height. Red brick with stone-coped parapeted end walls and graded slate roof. Alternate 20-paned glazing bar sashes and boarded doors with stone hinge blocks and tapered stone lintels (to accommodate the fall of the ground). Late C19 brick water tower adjoining at east end. The central room projects slightly and has a doorway leading through to the kitchen garden. The room is called the Fruit Room on the Soane drawing. Late C19 lean-to wrought-iron greenhouses on south side of wall. T-section ribs, curbed at base and resting on low brick walls. Short section projecting at right angles to right. This section of the garden walls is probably built in Flemish bond to allow for the passage of hot air within enabling the growing of fruit.

The Garden House: red brick with hipped graded slate roof with lead flat. Two storeys over basement. Wide eaves. Pair of brick stacks, each consisting of two square shafts with inset corners. West front: three bays; 20-pane glazing bar sashes with stone cills and stone lintels with recessed lower edges. First floor ten-pane glazing bar sashes. Set back one storey two bay wings. Flat roofs with coped parapets and parapeted gable ends. Integral brick end stacks. Semi-circular openings in each gable end. One storey five bay addition set back to left. C20 addition set back to right. One storey C20 addition between quadrant link walls at rear.

This was formerly the kitchen garden for Pell Wall (q.v.). Drawings of the kitchen garden, by Soane, are preserved in the Soane Museum.

Listing NGR: SJ6771533038

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 260281
Legacy System:: LBS

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.