Walled garden, approximately 17m east of Manor House Farmhouse

10 Addington Road, Woodford, Kettering, NN14 4ES

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Overview

A walled garden, likely dating to the early-to-mid C19. Read the official list entry to find out more.

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1475445
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-2022
List Entry Name:: Walled garden, approximately 17m east of Manor House Farmhouse
Statutory Address:: 10 Addington Road, Woodford, Kettering, NN14 4ES

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1475445
Date first listed:: 08-Mar-2022
List Entry Name:: Walled garden, approximately 17m east of Manor House Farmhouse
Statutory Address 1:: 10 Addington Road, Woodford, Kettering, NN14 4ES

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 10 Addington Road, Woodford, Kettering, NN14 4ES

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

District:: North Northamptonshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Woodford
National Grid Reference:: SP9670976828

Summary

A walled garden, likely dating to the early-to-mid C19.

Reasons for Designation

The walled garden, approximately 17m east of Manor House Farmhouse, Woodford is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:

Architectural Interest:

* as a well-constructed early-to-mid C19 walled garden with high quality architectural detailing, including street facing elements designed to match those of Manor House Farmhouse, a late-C16 or early-C17 farmhouse, listed Grade II*; * for its thoughtful design including ramped walls to maximise views between Manor House Farmhouse and the landscape beyond.

Historic interest:

* for its survival, illustrative of the development of the estate of Manor House Farmhouse.

Group value:

* as part of a cohesive and picturesque ensemble with Manor House Farmhouse.

History

The walled garden to Manor House Farmhouse (listed Grade II*, National Heritage List for England entry: 1225978) lies opposite the house on the east side of Addington Road. The farmhouse is thought to date to the late C16 or early C17. Formerly an H-plan hall house, it appears to have been reconfigured in the C18 to its existing U-shaped plan. Addington Road appears to have been constructed to the immediate east of the house by 1729. Maps from this period show that at this time a terrace of buildings lay opposite farmhouse, in the location of the present day walled garden. This terrace had been removed by the early-C19.

The boundary to the walled garden is first indicated on late-C19 maps. The west boundary wall echoes the construction and appearance of the boundary to the front of Manor House Farmhouse, suggesting both may have been constructed at the same time, possibly at a time when the farmhouse was being remodelled. The lower height of the east and west garden walls may have been designed to maximise views between Manor House Farmhouse and the Nene valley beyond. There is an access gate in the south wall between the garden and house to the south, known as Riverview. Late-C19 maps suggest that the walled garden was surveyed as part of the same land as Riverview and it is possible that the walled garden was maintained by the tenants. In the late-C19 the garden appears to have served an ornamental purpose and was later used to grow fruit, flowers and vegetables.

Details

A walled garden, likely dating to the early-to-mid C19.

MATERIALS: the walls are built from roughly dressed, randomly coursed limestone topped with moulded terracotta coping. The gate piers are constructed from ashlar, with a timber and iron gate. Pathways are formed from brick and sandstone slabs.

PLAN: the garden is roughly rectangular, orientated on an east-west axis.

DESCRIPTION: the principal entrance to the garden is set within the west wall, roughly in line with the entrance gate to the farmhouse on the opposite side of the road. Like the gate to the farmhouse, the garden gate features panelling to the lower half and railings with arched bracing above, likely replacements of earlier gates of a similar style. Four, coursed ashlar piers, with central recessed panels and moulded, pyramidal capping blocks, flank the gateway and north-west and south-west corners of the garden. The west wall is topped with large flat rectangular York stone copings decorated with a broached finish.

The walls to the north, east and south side are topped with decorative saddle profiled coping bricks laid in soldier course. The north and south walls are approximately 2.75m in height and ramped at their western ends, dropping to approximately 1.65m to meet the height of the west wall. The south wall contains a gateway to the neighbouring property, River View, featuring a round brick arch and wrought iron gate. The east wall is arced, being approximately 1.65m at its centre and ramped at both ends to meet the height of the adjoining walls. The north-east and south-east corners feature ashlar quoins.

The ground level inside the walled garden is approximately 1m higher than the surrounding land outside the wall. It features a partially submerged, axial path laid in herringboned brick and sandstone flags.

Sources

Other
Map of Woodford 1729 (Buccleuch Archives).
Morden, R, Map of 1701 (amended 1708), in Whitaker, H, A Descriptive List of the Printed Maps of Northamptonshire A.D. 1576-1900 (1948), pp. 50-51.
Ordnance Survey drawing 2” (1817).
Ordnance Survey map 1:2500 (surveyed 1884, published 1885).
Sutton, W, Map of the Manor of Woodford in the County of Northampton. Belonging to his Grace John Duke of Montagu (1731).

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.