Kitchen Garden Walls to West of Park House
KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS TO WEST OF PARK HOUSE, MOGGERHANGER PARK, MK44 3RW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390953
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Kitchen Garden Walls to West of Park House
- Statutory Address:
- KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS TO WEST OF PARK HOUSE, MOGGERHANGER PARK, MK44 3RW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1390953
- Date first listed:
- 13-Jan-2004
- List Entry Name:
- Kitchen Garden Walls to West of Park House
- Statutory Address 1:
- KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS TO WEST OF PARK HOUSE, MOGGERHANGER PARK, MK44 3RW
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:
- KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS TO WEST OF PARK HOUSE, MOGGERHANGER PARK, MK44 3RW
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Moggerhanger
- National Grid Reference:
- TL1340548629
Details
348/0/10009
MOGGERHANGER,
MOGGERHANGER PARK,
Kitchen Garden Walls To West Of Park House
13.01.04
GV
II
Garden enclosure walls. c.1790. Red brick in Flemish bond with blue brick copings. Walls are approx. 4m high and run in a continuous rectangle enclosing a large former kitchen garden. Double opening with segmental arch lintel to the centre of the north wall; single door under gauged brick lintel to the south-west corner, where there is access to a complex of garden buildings, and a gate at the eastern corner. Attached to the north, a lower rectangular range of brick walls mostly in Flemish bond and dating from c.1806, with some areas of later repair.
HISTORY: The kitchen garden is approx. 50m to the west of Moggerhanger (listed as Park House) re-modelled by Sir John Soane in 1790-97 for Godfrey Thornton, a director of the Bank of England and 1806-12 for Thornton's son, Stephen. The rectangular walled enclosure appears on Humphry Repton's 1792 Red Book map but not on the plan of 1789. The lower walls to the north were added c.1806 when Thornton's son, Stephen, was in the house. Glasshouses attached to the east of these were damaged in an 1835 storm and Soane arranged for their reglazing.
SOURCES: English Heritage Parks and Gardens file GD 3088 RUP.
Ptolemy Dean. Sir John Soane and the Country Estate. 1999.
An intact range of high brick enclosure walls dating from c.1790 to a former kitchen garden with attached lower walls from c.1806 that have excellent group value with Grade I Park House (Moggerhanger), the Grade II Stables, Ice House and Outbuildings, and the Grade II Registered Park and Garden.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 492592
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Ptolemy, D, Sir John Soane and the Country Estate, (1999)
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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