Walled Garden, Garden Buildings and St Pauls Cottage to North East of Lemmington Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1987. Garden walls, cottage, garden buildings.

Walled Garden, Garden Buildings and St Pauls Cottage to North East of Lemmington Hall

WRENN ID
stubborn-jade-foxglove
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Northumberland
Constituency
North Northumberland MP: David Smith (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
25 August 1987
Type
Garden walls, cottage, garden buildings
Address
Walled Garden, Garden Buildings and St Pauls Cottage to North East of Lemmington Hall, Edlingham
OS grid reference
NU 122 114
Coordinates
55.39665, -1.80866
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The site comprises a walled garden, associated garden buildings, and St. Paul’s Cottage, located to the north-east of Lemmington Hall. The garden walls and cottage largely date to the 18th century, with alterations in the early 20th century. The garden buildings are of early 20th-century origin.

The garden walls are constructed of brick in English Garden Wall Bond, with a rubble external face except on the east side. The cottage is of coursed rubble construction, while the garden buildings are predominantly brick, with a timber-framed greenhouse built on a brick base. Dressings are cut stone. The cottage roof is of stone flags and the garden buildings feature red clay tile roofing.

The garden has an irregular pentagonal plan and is open to the south-east. A 30-metre length of brick-faced wall extends from the south-west corner, connecting to a tall stone wall which runs towards the main hall. A west wall includes a ledged and boarded door within an archway featuring an interlaced head, raised stone surround, keystone and imposts.

St. Paul’s Cottage, located behind the wall, is a two-storey building with an attic and two bays. It has a vertical-panelled door with a narrow latticed overlight to the left and a four-light flat-faced mullioned window to the right, where the glazing has been altered. A raking dormer has been inserted, and there is a ridge stack. A return wall displays through-stones, and two windows have flattened Tudor-arched heads to their lights. The north-west wall of the garden reduces in thickness at mid-height, featuring flat coping and sloped buttresses to the rear.

The north wall of the garden contains two doors with interlaced ribs, set within stone surrounds featuring grotesque masks on the keystones. A re-set sundial is inscribed with the words "FEARE GOD AND OBAY THE KING," and stone-blocked heating ducts are also present. Behind the wall is a range of single-storey garden buildings, some pent-roofed and some gabled, with round-arched lights displaying fancy glazing, doors with interlaced ribs, stepped and cogged eaves, and inserted ornamental brackets. At the east end is a T-shaped greenhouse with fluted posts, a moulded and dentilled cornice, and carved spandrels. The east wall of the garden has collapsed at the south end and features boldly-projecting buttresses to the rear, with inserted ornamental brackets.

The site is included for group value, with a castellated south extension to the cottage and a greenhouse on the south face of the north wall specifically excluded from special interest.

Local climate

Walled Garden, Garden Buildings and St Pauls Cottage to North East of Lemmington Hall receives an average of 810 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 50% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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