Kitchen Garden Walls To West Of Park House

The kitchen garden walls located to the west of Park House in Moggerhanger date from around 1790. These garden enclosure walls are constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, topped with blue brick copings, and stand approximately 4 meters high, forming a continuous rectangle that encloses a large former kitchen garden. The north wall features a double opening with a segmental arch lintel at its center, while the south-west corner has a single door under a gauged brick lintel, providing access to a complex of garden buildings. There is also a gate at the eastern corner.

Attached to the north side of the garden walls is a lower rectangular range of brick walls, primarily in Flemish bond, which dates from around 1806 and includes some areas of later repair. Historically, the kitchen garden is situated about 50 meters west of Moggerhanger, which was remodeled by Sir John Soane between 1790 and 1797 for Godfrey Thornton, a director of the Bank of England, and again from 1806 to 1812 for Thornton's son, Stephen. The rectangular walled enclosure is depicted on Humphry Repton's 1792 Red Book map but does not appear on the 1789 plan. The lower walls to the north were added around 1806 during Stephen Thornton's residence. Glasshouses that were once attached to the east of these walls were damaged in a storm in 1835, prompting Soane to arrange for their reglazing.

These intact brick enclosure walls, along with the lower walls from 1806, have significant group value with the Grade I Park House (Moggerhanger), the Grade II Stables, Ice House, and Outbuildings, as well as the Grade II Registered Park and Garden.