Kitchen Garden

KITCHEN GARDEN, CASTLE ASHBY PARK

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1189830
Date first listed:
06-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Kitchen Garden
Statutory Address:
KITCHEN GARDEN, CASTLE ASHBY PARK
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1189830
Date first listed:
06-Sept-1988
List Entry Name:
Kitchen Garden
Statutory Address 1:
KITCHEN GARDEN, CASTLE ASHBY PARK

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
KITCHEN GARDEN, CASTLE ASHBY PARK

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

District:
West Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:
Castle Ashby
National Grid Reference:
SP 86396 58818

Details

CASTLE ASHBY CASTLE ASHBY PARK SP85NE 6/34 Kitchen Garden

GV II

Kitchen garden. 1868. By E.W. Godwin. Coursed squared limestone. Large rectangular enclosure with apse and apsidal-ended arm on principal axis. In Italian medieval style. Garden lies on principal formal axis of Italian Garden with fine low wrought-iron gates at entrance from Italian Garden flanked by tall buttressed gatepiers topped by seated griffins holding shields with Compton arms. Apse on far side of garden closes formal vista, and is raised above ground level and was formerly laid out for herbs. Enclosure walls have tiled coping. (Castle Ashby Park and Gardens are included in HBMC Register of parks and gardens for Northamptonshire at Grade I; Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p145; Castle Ashby archives)

Listing NGR: SP8639658818

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
235434
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Sources

Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Cherry, B, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire, (1973), 145

Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 30 Northamptonshire,

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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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