KITCHEN GARDEN WALL AND ADJOINING MELON/MUSHROOM HOUSE, FORMERLY TO ABBOTSWORTHY HOUSE

KITCHEN GARDEN WALL AND ADJOINING MELON/MUSHROOM HOUSE, FORMERLY TO ABBOTSWORTHY HOUSE, B3047

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391965
Date first listed:: 17-May-2007
List Entry Name:: KITCHEN GARDEN WALL AND ADJOINING MELON/MUSHROOM HOUSE, FORMERLY TO ABBOTSWORTHY HOUSE
Statutory Address:: KITCHEN GARDEN WALL AND ADJOINING MELON/MUSHROOM HOUSE, FORMERLY TO ABBOTSWORTHY HOUSE, B3047

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1391965
Date first listed:: 17-May-2007
List Entry Name:: KITCHEN GARDEN WALL AND ADJOINING MELON/MUSHROOM HOUSE, FORMERLY TO ABBOTSWORTHY HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: KITCHEN GARDEN WALL AND ADJOINING MELON/MUSHROOM HOUSE, FORMERLY TO ABBOTSWORTHY HOUSE, B3047

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.

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: KITCHEN GARDEN WALL AND ADJOINING MELON/MUSHROOM HOUSE, FORMERLY TO ABBOTSWORTHY HOUSE, B3047

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

County:: Hampshire
District:: Winchester (District Authority)
Parish:: Kings Worthy
National Park:: SOUTH DOWNS
National Grid Reference:: SU 49692 32690

Details

KINGS WORTHY

148/0/10014 B3047 17-MAY-07 Kitchen garden wall and adjoining melo n/mushroom house, formerly to Abbotswo rthy House

GV II Kitchen garden walls, formerly belonging to Abbotsworthy House (dating to 1836) and probably contemporary with it.

MATERIALS: The bricks of the garden wall are red brick in English Bond and Flemish Bond and they are capped with a red tile coping.

PLAN: The garden wall forms a rectangle.

DESCRIPTION: The walls of the walled garden stand to a height of about 3.1m high and about 0.3m wide, and on the east side of the kitchen garden wall is a low brick melon or mushroom house.

The walled garden encloses an area of about 2,200 sq m. (0.2200 ha). The interior of the walled garden is now the garden of Point Seven and is mainly grass, trees and shrubs, with a small swimming pool in the north east corner of the garden enclosed by a modern brick wall which is not of special interest. There is a gap for an entrance at the south west corner of the walled garden.

HISTORY: The Baring family bought Abbotsworthy in 1801, and in 1836 Abbotsworthy House was built for the Rev. Charles Baring. The Barings were a well known banking family whose banking history began in 1762, when Francis Baring set up a merchant's business in Mincing Lane, in the City of London. Barings The house passed out of the hands of the Baring family, but the family still own large tracts of land in Hampshire. Abbotsworthy House is now a private nursery.

The walls of the walled garden appears to date from the period of the construction of Abbotsworthy House. The bricks of the walled garden measure about 9 x 4 ½ x 3 inches, which is the size of bricks at the time of the 1803 Brick Tax which did not change until the Tax was removed in 1850.

SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: The kitchen garden walls was originally part of the grounds of Abbotsworthy House and preserve a link with the historic grounds of the house. It is of special interest as a handsome and essentially intact example of an early to mid C19 wall with a melon and mushroom house on its east side. In addition it has group value with the Grade II listed boundary wall of the house and with the houses The Hurst and Ramblers (No.2 Park Lane) (both listed Grade II) whose gardens abut the wall.

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Legacy System number:: 502408
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.