Walled Garden and Associated Structures at Hewell Grange

Walled Garden and Associated Structures at Hewell Grange

This walled garden was built in the mid-19th century for the Hewell Grange estate. It contains 19th and 20th century garden structures and an early 19th century dwelling.

The walled garden is rectangular, approximately 196 metres long and 92 metres wide, built on a sloping site that falls away to the west. The walls, constructed of brick in Flemish garden wall bond with stone coping, stand between 3.35 metres high on the north-east and 3.75 metres high on the south-west. External brick buttresses are spaced about 4 metres apart. Most of these buttresses have replacement concrete coping. The original cart entrance is in the north-east wall, with a later opposing entrance inserted in the south-west wall. Pedestrian entrances are positioned under segmental heads. The main entrances have stone hinge blocks set in brick piers for cart doors.

Two internal 19th century brick walls, each 3.7 metres high, run from north-east to south-west and divide the garden space. The longer wall (approximately 73 metres) may have been originally heated and aligns with the main north entrance. It has a series of low brick sheds with lean-to clay tile roofs attached to its north face, arranged as offices with various openings facing north and possibly containing a boiler for heating the adjacent wall.

The former glasshouses to the south wall have been removed and replaced with concrete hardstanding. South of this are the pineapple pits, surviving as brick walling, steps and a below-ground brick pit with raised beds. A late 19th century wall stands to the north-east, flanked by a late 19th century vinery glasshouse with a Henry Hope and Sons maker's mark on the doors. The cast-iron frame, mechanism, heating pipes and cast-iron columns remain in place. The glasshouse on the right side is late 20th century. The glasshouses and walling between the walls and in the southern half of the garden are of late 20th or early 21st century date.

At the south-east corner, facing Hollyoakes Lane, stand the Head Gardener's House and Garden Office (a former apple store), both two storeys high and built of brick. The house has two bays with a central door and porch, rendered externally, with a pitched roof and tall paired brick end stacks of probable late 19th century date. A rear range extends into the walled garden, and to the left is an arched opening in the garden wall leading into a cottage garden. The windows contain modern units. The detached office to the right has no openings to its roadside elevation, which is built behind the brick kitchen garden wall beneath a deep pitched roof with oversailing eaves. The north-west and south-west elevations have round-arched openings with metal glazing bars. The rear elevation contains a central door with rubbed brick flat arch and fanlight.

Other garden and service structures are arranged in the grounds of the cottage and against the interior faces of the walled garden. The main garden buildings include the Gardener's Cottage, Garden Office and sheds, constructed of brick with tile and cement roofs, along with glasshouses within the walled garden.