Bothy and Former Kitchen Garden Walls
BOTHY AND FORMER KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS, BULLER'S WAY
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329397
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Bothy and Former Kitchen Garden Walls
- Statutory Address:
- BOTHY AND FORMER KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS, BULLER'S WAY
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1329397
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Bothy and Former Kitchen Garden Walls
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOTHY AND FORMER KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS, BULLER'S WAY
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:
- BOTHY AND FORMER KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS, BULLER'S WAY
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Dorset (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Abbotsbury
- National Grid Reference:
- SY5641285055
Details
SY58NE
3/10000
ABBOTSBURY
BULLER'S WAY, ABBOTSBURY GARDENS
(South East side)
Bothy and former Kitchen Garden Walls
GV
II
Bothy and kitchen garden walls. Circa 1780s for the 1st
Countess of Ilchester.Limestone rubble with dressed quoins and
red brick arches. Bothy has slate roof with gabled ends and
lateral stack with short brick shaft and yellow clay pot.
Small rectangular-plan 2-storey bothy with one room on each
floor; the ground floor entered from the east side and has a
lateral fireplace on the west side; the first floor is entered
from steps up to a doorway on the south end. The bothy is
built into the east side of a quadrilateral, almost square,
plan walled kitchen garden of about 1 acre.
The bothy has stone-tread brick steps up to first floor
doorway on the south gable end with cambered brick arch and
plank door; the north gable end has 2-light casement with
glazing bars on ground and first floor; the outside east wall
has ground floor doorway at centre with wooden lintel and
plank door; the inside west wall facing kitchen garden is
blind. The kitchen garden walls rise to about 3 metres high
and have doorways with cambered brick arches; a section at the
north end of the west side has been breached.
INTERIOR of bothy has plastered walls and ceiling; first floor
has boarded ceiling.
HISTORY: Abbotsbury Gardens were begun by the 1st Countess of
Ilchester when a walled garden was built for Abbotsbury Castle
[burnt down in 1913]. It contains some important planting by
William Fox-Strangways [1795-1865] 4th Earl of Ilchester and
the planting up to circa 1900 make it renowned as a
'sub-tropical' garden. It is on the Gardens Register grade I.
Listing NGR: SY5641285055
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 352117
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 12 Dorset,
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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