Walled Gardens and Pavilion Approximately 50 Metres to South of Northbrook Farmhouse (Not Included) is a Grade II listed building in the Cherwell local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 December 1987. Walled gardens and pavilion.
Walled Gardens and Pavilion Approximately 50 Metres to South of Northbrook Farmhouse (Not Included)
- WRENN ID
- ruined-moulding-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cherwell
- Constituency
- Bicester and Woodstock MP: Calum Miller (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 December 1987
- Type
- Walled gardens and pavilion
- OS grid reference
- SP 492 220
- Coordinates
- 51.89496, -1.28632
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walled gardens and pavilion, located approximately 50 meters south of Northbrook Farmhouse, date back to the early 18th century. They feature chequer brickwork and limestone rubble, topped with a Stonesfield-slate roof. The main walled garden measures about 120 meters by 90 meters and is enclosed by brick walls that stand 3 to 4 meters high, divided into panels by shallow piers that rise from a plinth. The rounded brick coping ramps up in certain areas. To the west, there is a smaller garden with lower rubble walls that have a flat stone coping and rounded corners on the west side.
In the east wall of the main garden stands a three-storey brick pavilion tower, which features five-course rusticated quoins. The original openings, which include a doorway flanked by tall windows on the garden side and some blocked openings, are topped with flat gauged arches. There are also small inserted openings on the upper floors. The pavilion is capped with a pyramid roof that has an ornamental weathervane. Inside, there is an early 18th-century balustrade on the first floor, and the top floor showcases a heavy structure of intersecting chamfered beams. The garden front overlooks an elaborate Baroque pond. Historically, Northbrook was the site of a 16th and 17th-century mansion belonging to the Dashwood family, which was destroyed in 1750, but the gardens continued to serve Kirtlington Park.
Local climate
Walled Gardens and Pavilion Approximately 50 Metres to South of Northbrook Farmhouse (Not Included) sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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