Kitchen Garden

The kitchen garden at Castle Ashby, designed by E.W. Godwin in 1868, is a Grade II listed structure made of coursed squared limestone. It features a large rectangular enclosure with an apse and an apsidal-ended arm along its main axis, reflecting an Italian medieval style. The garden is situated on the principal formal axis of the Italian Garden and is accessed through fine low wrought-iron gates, which are flanked by tall buttressed gatepiers topped with seated griffins that hold shields displaying the Compton arms. The apse at the far end of the garden closes the formal vista and is raised above ground level, having been originally laid out for herbs. The walls of the enclosure are topped with tiled coping. Castle Ashby Park and Gardens are recognized in the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission Register for Northamptonshire at Grade I.