Description

SY58NE
3/10000

ABBOTSBURY
BULLER'S WAY, ABBOTSBURY GARDENS
(South East side)
Bothy and former Kitchen Garden Walls

GV
II

Bothy and kitchen garden walls. Circa 1780s for the 1st
Countess of Ilchester.Limestone rubble with dressed quoins and
red brick arches. Bothy has slate roof with gabled ends and
lateral stack with short brick shaft and yellow clay pot.
Small rectangular-plan 2-storey bothy with one room on each
floor; the ground floor entered from the east side and has a
lateral fireplace on the west side; the first floor is entered
from steps up to a doorway on the south end. The bothy is
built into the east side of a quadrilateral, almost square,
plan walled kitchen garden of about 1 acre.
The bothy has stone-tread brick steps up to first floor
doorway on the south gable end with cambered brick arch and
plank door; the north gable end has 2-light casement with
glazing bars on ground and first floor; the outside east wall
has ground floor doorway at centre with wooden lintel and
plank door; the inside west wall facing kitchen garden is
blind. The kitchen garden walls rise to about 3 metres high
and have doorways with cambered brick arches; a section at the
north end of the west side has been breached.
INTERIOR of bothy has plastered walls and ceiling; first floor
has boarded ceiling.
HISTORY: Abbotsbury Gardens were begun by the 1st Countess of
Ilchester when a walled garden was built for Abbotsbury Castle
[burnt down in 1913]. It contains some important planting by
William Fox-Strangways [1795-1865] 4th Earl of Ilchester and
the planting up to circa 1900 make it renowned as a
'sub-tropical' garden. It is on the Gardens Register grade I.

Listing NGR: SY5641285055

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26614681

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  Listed Buildings, Conservation Areas and Monuments
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of Historic Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas
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