Kitchen Garden is a Grade II listed building in the West Northamptonshire local planning authority area, England. Garden.
Kitchen Garden
- WRENN ID
- wild-jade-elder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Northamptonshire
- Constituency
- South Northamptonshire MP: Sarah Bool (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Garden
- Address
- Kitchen Garden, Castle Ashby Park
- OS grid reference
- SP 863 588
- Coordinates
- 52.22082, -0.73669
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Kitchen Garden sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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