Description

WATTON-AT-STONE WOODHALL PARK
TL 31 NW
4/112
- Garden Walls and
Garden House
- II

Garden walls part in Sacombe Civil Parish (q.v.), see Garden Walls and
Beehive Cottage, Woodhall Park. Kitchen garden wall with attached
gardener's cottages for Woodhall Park Estate. Walls laid out c.1780 by
Wm. Malcolm, Royal Nurseryman, for Sir T. Rumbold. Plum stock brick,
Flemish bond, with stone dressings, iron gates. A large rectangle about
200m x 125m with internal walls dividing it into 4 separate areas, 2 to
NE smaller. About 4m to 6m high with plain brick coping. Corner piers.
Walls ramped down to openings on all sides with stone blocked and capped
piers, ball finials to N. Wrought iron gates to W dated 1910 with arms
of Smith family. A small subsidiary opening with a gauged brick
segmental head to SE. Internal walls have openings with stone capped
piers. Garden House is an early C19 and C20 former gardener's cottage
built into N end of NW elevation. Red brick. Slate roof. 3 bays. 2
storeys, basement and attic. Central bay projects slightly with C20
double flight of steps. Central 6 panelled door and semi-circular
fanlight in round headed gauged brick reveal, flanking recessed glazing
bar sashes with gauged brick flat arched heads. 2 light segmental headed
casements in outer bays in basement. First floor 3:3 pane sashes.
Cornice to pediment with an oval opening. 1 bay returns have ground
floor 12 pane, first floor 6 pane sashes. Cross axial ridge stack. 1 bay
added to rear in C20. This walled garden was singled out as being of
special interest by J.C. Loudon and it was here that J. Paxton learned
his trade as an apprentice stove house grower.

Listing NGR: TL3210619021

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26625562

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Wiltshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Staffordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)