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
Country
England
Type
Garden
Source
Historic England listing

Description

CASTLE ASHBY CASTLE ASHBY PARK SP85NE 6/34 Kitchen Garden

GV II

Kitchen garden. 1868. By E.W. Godwin. Coursed squared limestone. Large rectangular enclosure with apse and apsidal-ended arm on principal axis. In Italian medieval style. Garden lies on principal formal axis of Italian Garden with fine low wrought-iron gates at entrance from Italian Garden flanked by tall buttressed gatepiers topped by seated griffins holding shields with Compton arms. Apse on far side of garden closes formal vista, and is raised above ground level and was formerly laid out for herbs. Enclosure walls have tiled coping. (Castle Ashby Park and Gardens are included in HBMC Register of parks and gardens for Northamptonshire at Grade I; Buildings of England: Northamptonshire: 1973, p145; Castle Ashby archives)

Listing NGR: SP8639658818

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