Walled Garden north of Ashby Hall

A late C18 or early C19 detached walled garden with boiler house and surviving greenhouse dwarf walls.

MATERIALS: constructed of red brick with a pantile coping.

PLAN: The Walled Garden has a hexagonal plan form.

EXTERIOR: the garden is constructed in an English garden wall bond using 2 ¼ inch handmade red bricks. The wall is topped with pantile coping.

A partially reinstated gravel pathway traverses the exterior of the garden. On the exterior of the southern wall are the surviving dwarf supporting walls of the glasshouses, as well as surviving elements of the iron winching mechanism used to open the glass panels of the roof. There is some evidence for heating pipes surviving within the dwarf wall structure. On the north-eastern portion of the exterior wall is a multi-diamond pattern created out of blue bricks.

Within the Walled Garden, there are also surviving elements of the Victorian glasshouses to the north wall. There are visible brick arches which would have provided a heat source, and above a modern dwelling has been built on the footprint. To the west of the reinstated glasshouses is a small C19 lean-to.

Located at the western and eastern extremities of the hexagon layout are plank doors, with wooden lintels above. To the southern wall there is the remains of a small shelter, likely for a boiler, with a brick chimney within which indicates that the southern wall was heated. It is likely that this was later extended to provide the heating for the southern glasshouses.

Pursuant to s1 (5A) of the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 (‘the Act’) it is declared that the modern dwelling built upon the dwarf walls to the northern section of the Walled Garden is not of special architectural or historic interest, however any works which have the potential to affect the character of the listed building as a building of special architectural or historic interest may still require LBC and this is a matter for the LPA to determine.