Knucklebone Arbour is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. Garden building.
Knucklebone Arbour
- WRENN ID
- seventh-dormer-russet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Country
- England
- Type
- Garden building
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
CASTLE ASHBY CASTLE ASHBY PARK SP85NE 6/46 Knucklebone Arbour
GV II
Garden building. Mid/late C18. Timber with stepped conical thatch roof. Circular. The arbour takes the form of a small rustic rotunda with slender circular posts covered with bark to give an effect of fluting, with plain bases and bark capitals and frieze. One half is open, the other half has split trunk rustic planks between posts and low semi-circular bench within. Patterned floor of pebbles and sheep's 'knuckle-bones'. Overhanging eaves. The arbour looks out across the park back towards Castle Ashby and is approached by a walk through the boundary plantation, separated from park by a ha-ha. It probably forms part of Capability Brown's improvements to park and garden. (Castle Ashby park and gardens are included in HBMC Register of Parks and Gardens for Northamptonshire at Grade I)
Listing NGR: SP8691758916
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