Kitchen Garden Walls and Attached House Approximately 600 Metres South East of Blenheim Palace
KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS AND ATTACHED HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 600 METRES SOUTH EAST OF BLENHEIM PALACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203432
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Kitchen Garden Walls and Attached House Approximately 600 Metres South East of Blenheim Palace
- Statutory Address:
- KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS AND ATTACHED HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 600 METRES SOUTH EAST OF BLENHEIM PALACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1203432
- Date first listed:
- 27-Jul-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Kitchen Garden Walls and Attached House Approximately 600 Metres South East of Blenheim Palace
- Statutory Address 1:
- KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS AND ATTACHED HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 600 METRES SOUTH EAST OF BLENHEIM PALACE
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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 WALLS AND ATTACHED HOUSE APPROXIMATELY 600 METRES SOUTH EAST OF BLENHEIM PALACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Oxfordshire
- District:
- West Oxfordshire (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Blenheim
- National Grid Reference:
- SP4464315595
Details
BLENHEIM
SP41NW
2/19 Kitchen Garden Walls and
attached house approx. 600m SE
of Blenheim Palace
GV II
Walls enclosing kitchen garden. c.1710 by Thomas Churchill and Richard Stacey.
Stone-coped walls, of Flemish bond brick and 4.5m high, enclose area
approximately 80 x 320 metres. Walls have two elliptical curves to each side.
Keyed stone ashlar niches set in walls; bellcote with bell over niche to north.
Large piers, with raised panels and moulded stone plinths, flank north and south
entrances with C20 gates. Banded brickwork with flared headers to piers of east
entrance, with C20 gates, and west entrance which has stone ashlar pedimented
Tuscan gateway flanked by niches, by Sir William Chambers, 1766-75, and late C19
wrought-iron gate. Late C18 gardener's house attached to south-west: of
limestone rubble with M-shaped concrete tile roof, and C19 brick end stacks.
Double-depth plan. 2-storey, 2-window range front has keyed flat stone arches
over late C19 plate-glass sashes. C20 door in gable end. Interior noted as
having quarter-turn stairs with turned balusters. Limestone rubble walls enclose
area approximately 40 x 320 metres to rear. Stacey and Churchill were
master-bricklayers who built Queen Anne's Orangery at Kensington Palace.
(Blenheim Park is included in the HBMC Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade I;
Buildings of England: Oxfordshire: p475; D. Green: Blenheim Palace and Gardens:
1972, p4)
Listing NGR: SP4464315595
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 253001
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Pevsner, N, Sherwood, J, The Buildings of England: Oxfordshire, (1974), 475
Green, D, Blenheim Palace and Gardens, (1972), 4
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 34 Oxfordshire
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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