Garden Walls

SACOMBE WOODHALL PARK TL 31 Bl4 4/112 Garden Walls and - Beehive Cottage - II

Garden walls part in Watton-at-Stone Civil Parish (q.v.), see Garden Walls and Garden House, Woodhall Park. Kitchen garden wall with attached gardener's cottages for Woodhall Park Estate. Walls laid out c.1780 by Wm. Malcolm, Royal Nurseryman, for T. Rumbold. Plum stock brick, Flemish bond, with stone dressings, iron gates. A large rectangle about 200m x 125m with internal walls dividing it into 4 separate areas, 2 to NE smaller. About 4m to 6m high with plain brick coping. Corner piers. Walls ramped down to openings on all sides with stone blocked and capped piers, ball finials to N. Wrought iron gates to W, dated 1910 with arms of Smith family. A small subsidiary opening with a gauged brick segmental head to SE. Internal walls have openings with stone capped piers. Beehive Cottage is a C19 former gardener's cottage built inside NE wall at E end. Red brick. Tiled roof. 3 bays. 2 storeys. 2 light small pane recessed casements. Right end internal stack, left end external stack. Entrance in 1 storey outshut on left end. To rear casement windows with red brick above earlier stock brick wall. This walled garden was singled out as being of special interest by J.C. Loudon and it was here that J. Paxton learned his trade as an apprentice stove house grower.

Listing NGR: TL3220218962