GARDEN WALL AND ATTACHED SUMMERHOUSE IN THE GROUNDS OF THE RECTORY

GARDEN WALL AND ATTACHED SUMMERHOUSE IN THE GROUNDS OF THE RECTORY, 81, HIGH STREET

Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places

Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380162
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-2000
List Entry Name:: GARDEN WALL AND ATTACHED SUMMERHOUSE IN THE GROUNDS OF THE RECTORY
Statutory Address:: GARDEN WALL AND ATTACHED SUMMERHOUSE IN THE GROUNDS OF THE RECTORY, 81, HIGH STREET

The Missing Pieces Project

Share your view of unique places.

Add your contribution

Location

Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.

This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.

What is the National Heritage List for England?

The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.

The list includes:

🏠 Buildings
🏰 Scheduled monuments
🌳 Parks and gardens
⚔️ Battlefields
⚓ Shipwrecks

Find out more about listing

Images of England Project

To view this image please use Firefox, Chrome, Safari, or Edge.

Archive image, may not represent current condition of site.

Date:: 2007-05-26
Reference:: IOE01/16672/28
Rights:: © Lorna Freeman. Source: Historic England Archive

Historic England Archive

Search over 1 million photographs and drawings from the 1850s to the present day using our images archive.

Find Photos

Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1380162
Date first listed:: 09-Mar-2000
List Entry Name:: GARDEN WALL AND ATTACHED SUMMERHOUSE IN THE GROUNDS OF THE RECTORY
Statutory Address 1:: GARDEN WALL AND ATTACHED SUMMERHOUSE IN THE GROUNDS OF THE RECTORY, 81, HIGH STREET

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: GARDEN WALL AND ATTACHED SUMMERHOUSE IN THE GROUNDS OF THE RECTORY, 81, HIGH STREET

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

District:: Milton Keynes (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Newport Pagnell
National Grid Reference:: SP 87541 43816

Details

NEWPORT PAGNELL

SP 8743 HIGH STREET 645/1/10026 No.81 09-MAR-00 Garden wall and attached summerhouse in the grounds of The Rectory

GV II

Garden wall and attached summer house. Wall C17; summerhouse circa 1700 for Mr Christie. Wall of dark red brick, approx 16 courses high and 15 metres in length, with a shaped stone coping and a swept curve later incorporated into the summer house side wall. Summer house of red brick in Flemish bond with blue headers under plain tile roof with lead hips. The building is square on plan, raised on a shallow brick arch. Entrance by four steps on the E side; sash windows (now boarded over). Pyramidal roof with exposed shaped rafter ends on timber wall plates, and with a metal decorative terminal. Interior not inspected. History: Built probably before 1703 by Mr Christie, then incorporated in the extensive gardens of his property, the Old Vicarage (now no. 79, Old Chantry House (qv)). A will of 1703 describes, " ... and also a very neat Kitchen and Pleasure garden, laid out in a tasteful Manner, walled around and planted with the choicest Fruit Trees, Evergreens and shrubs and other ornamental Trees and flowers, with a complete raised Brick Summer house, and chimney thereon, neatly sashed and fitted up, and a Temple of Ease in the said Garden, the whole containing 2r 20p." The summer house is said to have been used at one time as a smoke house.

Listing NGR: SP8754143816

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 479686
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.