Rockery adjacent to Reeth Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Yorkshire Dales National Park local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 February 1988. Rockery.
Rockery adjacent to Reeth Cottage
- WRENN ID
- narrow-trefoil-bittern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Yorkshire Dales National Park
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 February 1988
- Type
- Rockery
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 5 Marh 2024 to correct a typo in the description and to reformat the text to current standards
SE 08 NW 15/100
AYSGARTH MAIN STREET (South Side) Rockery adjacent to Reeth Cottage
II
Rockery in walled enclosure 1906-14. By Messrs. Backhouse of York for Mr F S Graham. Rockery of limestone blocks; enclosure wall of rubblestone with cast-iron railings. Rockery comprises lumps of limestone placed in picturesque mounds with narrow paths between. Enclosure approx. 14 x 42 metres, has quoins, flat coping to return walls which ramp up hill-slope and triangular-sectioned coping to low front wall which is broken by gate with round-topped monolithic gate piers and is surmounted by hooped and bud-finialled railings, the gate being similar. On right return, rockery breaks through enclosure wall. Attached lean-to's not of special interest.
The rockery stones are reported to have been brought to this site from a field just to the west of the village. The builders, James Backhouse and Son, were well known rockery builders and alpine nurserymen from the late 1850s. ( The rockery houses a large and varied collection of alpine plants which is not covered by the listing.)
Listing NGR: SE0020588387
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