Description

HARLAXTON
SK8932 GRANTHAM ROAD
1315-0/15/177 (South side (off))
24/09/79 Kitchen garden walls and gardener's
house 500m north-west of Harlaxton
Manor
(Formerly Listed as:
GRANTHAM ROAD
Walls, railings, gates and
Gardener's Lodge of Kitchen at
Harlaxton Manor)
II*
Kitchen garden walls and gardener's house. c1832-1844.
Probably by William Burn for Gregory Gregory. Red brick and
ashlar with ashlar dressings. The walls enclose a series of
linked polygonal gardens approx 300m x l00m, crossed by
cambered brick paths. Square piers with flat corniced caps.
Ashlar screen wall, flanking the drive, has an off-centre
gateway with rusticated piers and a pair of wrought-iron
gates. Beyond, square double pilasters, then screens with 3
bays of cast-iron railing and ashlar piers, then 3 bays of
solid wall flanked by large rusticated piers. To left, 4
triple bays of brick wall with ashlar panels and chamfered
coping. To right, 2 triple bays. Brick inner wall with splayed
ends has moulded ramped ashlar coping and 3 gateways flanked
by round arched niches with rusticated piers. The central
gateway is flanked again by larger brick piers with volutes.
The outer enclosing walls have chamfered copings, and the east
side has stepped buttresses.
The gardener's house is set midway in the north wall. Brick
with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Corbelled side wall
stacks with square ashlar triple flues. 2 storeys; 3 bays.
Square plan. Tudor Revival style. Quoins, eaves cornice,
ramped coped parapet with corner pedestals and ball finials.
Central entrance bay flanked by full height shaped pilasters
and topped with a round arched gable with ball finials. Margin
glazed 2-light window. Central door altered to a window,
flanked by similar altered windows, all wooden framed cross
casements. All these openings have moulded ashlar surrounds
and keystones. On either side, the wall has a ramped moulded
coping with square pedestals, probably the flues for heating
the lean-to vine houses, which are partly demolished.
This building appears within Harlaxton Manor Gardens which are
on the Gardens Register at grade II*.
(The Buildings of England: Pevsner N, Harris J & Antram N:
Lincolnshire: London: 1964-1989: 363).

Listing NGR: SK8902832746

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q17550192

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)