Kitchen Garden Walls And Gardeners House 500 Metres North West Of Harlaxton Manor

Kitchen garden walls and a gardener's house, dating to approximately 1832-1844, are located 500 metres northwest of Harlaxton Manor. They were likely designed by William Burn for Gregory Gregory. The walls are constructed of red brick with ashlar dressings. The walls enclose a series of linked polygonal gardens, measuring roughly 300 metres by 100 metres, and are crossed by cambered brick paths. Square piers with flat, corniced caps are a prominent feature. An ashlar screen wall runs alongside the drive, featuring an off-centre gateway with rusticated piers and a pair of wrought-iron gates. Beyond this are sections of screen wall with three bays of cast-iron railing supported by ashlar piers, followed by three bays of solid wall flanked by large rusticated piers. To the left are four sections of brick wall with ashlar panels and chamfered coping, and to the right, two similar sections. The brick inner wall, with splayed ends, has moulded, ramped ashlar coping and three gateways, each flanked by round arched niches with rusticated piers. The central gateway is further flanked by larger brick piers with volutes. The outer enclosing walls have chamfered copings, and the east side incorporates stepped buttresses. The gardener's house is situated midway along the north wall. It is constructed of brick with ashlar dressings and has a slate roof, with corbelled side wall stacks supporting square ashlar triple flues. The house is two storeys high, with three bays arranged on a square plan. It is in a Tudor Revival style, featuring quoins, an eaves cornice, a ramped coped parapet with corner pedestals and ball finials. The central entrance bay is flanked by full-height shaped pilasters and surmounted by a round arched gable with ball finials. A margin-glazed two-light window is present, with altered windows flanking the former entrance. These openings have moulded ashlar surrounds and keystones. The walls feature ramped moulded coping with square pedestals, which likely supported flues for heating demolished lean-to vine houses. The complex is positioned within Harlaxton Manor Gardens, which are included on the Gardens Register at group value context Grade II*.