Walled Gardens at Apethorpe Palace
WALLED GARDENS AT APETHORPE PALACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271465
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Walled Gardens at Apethorpe Palace
- Statutory Address:
- WALLED GARDENS AT APETHORPE PALACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1271465
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jan-2001
- List Entry Name:
- Walled Gardens at Apethorpe Palace
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALLED GARDENS AT APETHORPE 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:
- WALLED GARDENS AT APETHORPE PALACE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Apethorpe
- National Grid Reference:
- TL 02337 95200
Details
This list entry was subject to a minor amendment on 03/02/2015.
APETHORPE
TL0295 APETHORPE PARK
1745/18/10009 Walled Gardens at Apethorpe Palace
25-JAN-01
GV II
Garden walls. Early/mid C19. Red brick, paler brick and coursed rubblestone.Two complete sets, that to north of approx.30 x70m, the southern approx. 80x 50m, with most of one wall in common. The northern has mainly high brick walls with stone coping and entrance gateways, the eastern with finely gauged brickwork. Along the northern wall is a large glasshouse of c.1905 and behind it, on the outside of the wall a range of lean-to bothies. The southern wall is of stone and continues southwards as the other high walled garden. Along part of its length and at the bottom it is of brick of an bond of headers and stretchers on end with a rubble-filled cavity in between forming an unusually thick wall. The walls have a stone slate coping. On the outer edge in the re-entrant angle where the walls enclose part of the "secret garden" there are stone panels set-in inscribed with sayings or quotations. These garden walls form a significant group with the Gardener's Cottage (qv), the Sunken Garden (qv), and the other items at Apethorpe surrounding the house. They were part of the C19 work at Apethorpe carried out for the Earls of Westmorland.
The gardens at Apethorpe are included in the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens at Grade II.
Listing NGR: TL0233795200
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 487538
- 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.
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