Walled Kitchen Garden, formerly belonging to Hale House
Walled Kitchen Garden, formerly belonging to Hale House, Hale
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1419243
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Walled Kitchen Garden, formerly belonging to Hale House
- Statutory Address:
- Walled Kitchen Garden, formerly belonging to Hale House, Hale
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1419243
- Date first listed:
- 30-Jan-2006
- List Entry Name:
- Walled Kitchen Garden, formerly belonging to Hale House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Walled Kitchen Garden, formerly belonging to Hale House, Hale
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:
- Walled Kitchen Garden, formerly belonging to Hale House, Hale
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Hampshire
- District:
- New Forest (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hale
- National Park:
- New Forest
- National Grid Reference:
- SU1854918574
Details
HALE,
Walled kitched garden, formerly belonging to Hale House
II
Walled kitchen garden, formerly belonging to Hale House, built c1790 for the May family of Hale Park, extended C19. PLAN: Extensive walls built on a S facing slope, enclosing an overall area of c150m x 60m. The walled enclosures comprise 2 large, square gardens and a narrower 'side' or ';slip' garden on the E side.
DESCRIPTION: Red brick laid in English bond with some burnt headers, 3m or higher with curved coping. The tall northern stretch has pilasters at regular intervals to the rear. The intermediate walls have cambered and round-headed openings. The western wall was originally built in mud or cob; this has mainly been rebuilt in replica and has tiled copings, and is of lesser interest. The eastern- and western-most sections of garden were enclosed on the S side in 1884; this wall is in red brick in English bond with black tiles to the coping. The central compartment is open on the south side.
HISTORY: The walls enclosed the former kitchen garden belonging to Hale Park (qv), and were built c1790 after the estate was sold to the May family in 1788, possibly replacing an earlier kitchen garden nearer to the house. They were originally open on the S side, as was commonly the practice at the bottom of a slope in order to allow 'roll-off' of frost.
The Garden Cottage is not included in the listing.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: This is a substantial and well-preserved survival of a walled kitchen garden, formerly belonging to Hale House (qv), which forms an integral part of Hale Park, a Grade II* registered historic landscape. The walls also have group value with the Rectory, Queen Street (qv).
SOURCES: Pevsner, The Buildings of England, Hampshire,1967, pp 262-3;
Susan Campell, Walled Kitchen Gardens, 1998; The Walled Kitchen Garden at Hale, January 2003
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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