Walled Garden 200 Metres North West Of Howick Hall

Description

This information is taken from the statutory List as it was in 2001 and may not be up to date.

NU 2417 LONGHOUGHTON HOWICK HALL

16/122 Walled garden 200 metres north- west of Howick Hall GV II

Walled garden, probably later C18. South, east and inner face of west walls brick with alternate pairs headers and stretchers every 3rd course; inner face north wall brick in English Garden Wall Bond 1 and 4; ha-ha wall and outer face of north and west walls squared stone; tooled stone coping; ashlar dressings to doors on south and east. Plan: trapezoidal walled garden with lawn terrace on south enclosed by ha-ha wall.

South garden wall 3 metres high and 23 bays long, with square pilasters on both faces and flat coping; central bay has flush-panelled door in architrave.

Slightly-higher 13-bay east wall has similar features and a segmental-headed arch near north end; west wall has internal pilasters only and a central segmental arch with boarded double doors. North wall has brick-blocked heating ducts in external face, 3 pairs of old chimney pots on coping, and inserted central gateway.

Ha-ha, being restored at time of survey, 1 metre high with low-pitched coping.



Listing NGR: NU2469717701

Content

This is part of the Series: IOE01/0059 IOE Records taken by Keith Ascough; within the Collection: IOE01 Images Of England

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© Mr Keith Ascough. Source: Historic England Archive

This photograph was taken for the Images of England project