Kitchen Garden Walls, Towers, Summerhouses, Gate Piers, Gates, Lodge and Stables is a Grade II listed building in the Wiltshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 20 November 1995. Kitchen garden walls, towers, summerhouses, gate piers, gates, lodge and stables.

Kitchen Garden Walls, Towers, Summerhouses, Gate Piers, Gates, Lodge and Stables

WRENN ID
wild-lantern-tallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wiltshire
Constituency
Salisbury MP: John Glen (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
20 November 1995
Type
Kitchen garden walls, towers, summerhouses, gate piers, gates, lodge and stables
Address
Kitchen Garden Walls, Towers, Summerhouses, Gate Piers, Gates, Lodge and Stables, Berwick St. John
OS grid reference
ST 958 179
Coordinates
50.96111, -2.06067
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Kitchen garden walls, corner towers, gateways, a lodge, summerhouses, and stables dating to circa 1895-7 were constructed for A.H. Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers as part of the remodelling of Rushmore Park. The park was redesigned from circa 1880, intended as a series of parks and pleasure grounds for the education and recreation of local people.

The walls are built of red brick in English bond, with Flemish bond used for the lodge and header bond for the towers. Stone dressings are present throughout. The roofs are tiled, with conical roofs on the towers and gabled ends with ornate, pierced bargeboards and a brick axial stack on the lodge.

The kitchen garden is enclosed by tall, buttressed brick walls with terracotta coping. Three cylindrical corner towers feature conical roofs, datestones, internal doorways, and external ventilation slits. One corner has an observation turret, although its superstructure is missing. Gateways on the north and south sides have tall brick piers with stone bands, caps, and ball finials, along with iron gates.

The lodge on the north side is a one-story and attic structure with two wooden oriels on the ground floor, a doorway between them, and a verandah with iron posts and a glass canopy. The building also has two half-dormers with ornate bargeboards. A summerhouse on the north side is designed to resemble a temple, featuring an Ionic stone colonnade of four columns in antis with an entablature displaying a strapwork frieze. Behind the wall lies a lead dome with a cupola. The interior contains niches, a colonnade, and a coffered dome. A second summerhouse, on the west side, has pairs of Ionic columns to its portico, with flanking niches. A detached stable range is located immediately north, with plank doors and windows on the south front and timber-framed end gables featuring ornate pierced bargeboards with finials and pendants. Pitt-Rivers was an anthropologist and archaeologist, and a pioneer in archaeological techniques.

Local climate

Kitchen Garden Walls, Towers, Summerhouses, Gate Piers, Gates, Lodge and Stables receives an average of 820 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 51% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 57% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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