Kitchen Garden of Somerleyton Hall
KITCHEN GARDEN OF SOMERLEYTON HALL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1031936
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Kitchen Garden of Somerleyton Hall
- Statutory Address:
- KITCHEN GARDEN OF SOMERLEYTON HALL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1031936
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Kitchen Garden of Somerleyton Hall
- Statutory Address 1:
- KITCHEN GARDEN OF SOMERLEYTON HALL
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- KITCHEN GARDEN OF SOMERLEYTON HALL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Suffolk
- District:
- East Suffolk (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Somerleyton, Ashby and Herringfleet
- National Grid Reference:
- TM 49239 97979
Details
SOMERLEYTON SOMERLEYTON PARK TM 49 NE 4/64 Kitchen Garden of Somerleyton Hall GV II* Walled kitchen garden. Circa 1846 for Sir Morton Peto. The glass cases and ridge and furrow glasshouses are probably by Sir Joseph Paxton. A rectangle of red brick walls 90m x 60m and 3.5-4m high. The south wall has a fine central entrance portico in red brick with stone dressings: 4 pilasters support a cornice capped by 2 stone urns, each containing a bronze aloe plant. Entrance with wrought iron gates and a carved segmental panel above; to each side of the entrance is a niche containing an urn. Against the south side of the south wall are 2 fine identical ranges of glass cases, with entrances at each end set forward. The cases have cast iron frames with vertically-glazed wooden panels; cornice with cresting and cone finials. Against the south side of the north wall are 2 matching ranges of lean-to glasshouses with ridge and furrow roofs. The main frame of these is also of cast iron. Potting and store sheds behind. The only other similar glass cases in the country by Paxton are at Chatsworth. In the 1861 estate sale catalogue the cases were described as 'Glass Wall Houses or Promenade Houses'. Forms part of a garden included in the HBMC County Register of Gardens at Grade II*.
Listing NGR: TM4923997979
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 282415
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 39 Suffolk,
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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