Walled Garden north of Ashby Hall is a Grade II listed building in the North Kesteven local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 December 2023. Garden. 1 related planning application.
Walled Garden north of Ashby Hall
- WRENN ID
- ancient-lead-khaki
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Kesteven
- Constituency
- Sleaford and North Hykeham MP: Dr Caroline Johnson (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 December 2023
- Type
- Garden
- Address
- Walled Garden north of Ashby Hall, Heath Road, Ashby De La Launde, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, Ashby De La Launde and Bloxholm, LN4 3BT
- OS grid reference
- TF 053 555
- Coordinates
- 53.08656, -0.4291
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Walled Garden north of Ashby Hall is a detached garden dating from the late 18th century or early 19th century, featuring a boiler house and remnants of greenhouse dwarf walls.
Constructed of red brick with a pantile coping, the garden has a hexagonal shape. The exterior walls are built in an English garden wall bond using 2 ¼ inch handmade red bricks and are topped with pantile coping. A partially reinstated gravel pathway runs along the outside of the garden. On the southern wall, there are surviving dwarf walls that once supported glasshouses, along with parts of the iron winching mechanism used to open the glass roof panels. Evidence of heating pipes can still be found within the dwarf wall structure. Additionally, the north-eastern section of the exterior wall features a decorative multi-diamond pattern made from blue bricks.
Inside the Walled Garden, remnants of Victorian glasshouses can be seen on the north wall, including brick arches that would have provided heat. Above this area, a modern dwelling has been constructed on the original footprint. To the west of the reinstated glasshouses, there is a small 19th-century lean-to.
At the western and eastern ends of the hexagon layout, there are plank doors with wooden lintels above. The southern wall contains the remains of a small shelter, likely for a boiler, which has a brick chimney indicating that this wall was heated. It is believed that this heating system was later extended to warm the southern glasshouses.
While the modern dwelling built on the dwarf walls in the northern section of the Walled Garden is not considered of special architectural or historic interest, any works that could affect the character of the listed building may still require listed building consent, as determined by the local planning authority.
Local climate
Walled Garden north of Ashby Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 77% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 83% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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