Nursery Garden Walls And Attached Outbuildings At Elvaston Castle

SK 43 SW 2/33

PARISH OF ELVASTON BORROWASH ROAD (West Side) Nursery Garden Walls and Attached Outbuildings at Elvaston Castle

GV II

Kitchen garden walls and attached outbuildings. Late C18 and mid C19. Built for the Earl of Harrington. Red brick with brick and stone dressings, and slate roofs to outbuildings. Two large rectangles of walls, both approximately 12 feet high with late C18 walls to east plus outbuildings attached to north wall, and mid C19 walls to west. Mid C19 walls are partly of metric sized bricks and are hollow to allow hot air to be pumped through. West wall has a C20 opening with wrought iron gates. C18 walls have flat stone copings. The outbuildings to north have a two storey part to east, with central panelled door below plain stone lintel and a 2-light window below similar lintel to east, plus canted bay window to west. Above there are three 2-light horizontal sliding glazing bar sashes below segment heads. Central part is single storey with plank doors and lapped glass windows below plain stone lintels and to west there is a tall tower-like structure with single pitched roof, also with lapped glass window and plank door.

Listing NGR: SK4114532791