Record Details
| NHER Number: | 44334 |
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| Type of record: | Building |
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| Name: | Kitchen gardens, Ketteringham Hall |
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Summary
The 18th century kitchen gardens with a late 19th century Renaissnance style gate. There is also a late 18th cenury octagonal gardener's cottage and a late 19th century red brick gazebo. The garden features are visible on aerial photographs.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 16396 02466 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG10SE |
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| Parish: | KETTERINGHAM, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
Kitchen garden walls, 18th century, red brick in Flemish bond. 3 sides of rectangle.
Embattled parapet, and gateway to southeast dated 1886, for Sir Francis Boileau; gateway in Renaissance style with semi-circular headed arch having 2 shafts either side in pink stone; broken segmental pediment with ball finial and pulvinated frieze. Upper part of gate of decorative wrought iron incorporating acorns and oak leaves.
Gardener's Cottage: late 18th century, within southwest angle of walls: red brick, slate roof, octagonal, 2 storeys
with octagonal roof; 1½ storeyed single bay wings along walls to northeast and southeast, hipped slate roofs, recessed sashes with glazing bars, gauged brick flat arches.
Lofted Gazebo: within southeast angle of walls dated 1898, for Sir Francis Boileau. Red brick, plain tiles with decorative
courses. Square, 1 storey and loft, pyramidal roof with elaborate wrought iron scroll work finial. Stack to southeast having shaft with decorative head and pointed cap bricks, brick dentil cornice; ground floor with 2 pointed openings with stepped recesses, leaded lights, one opening and similar doorway to northwest. Loft with 2 bulls eyes in square recesses to both garden faces. Facades outside kitchen garden: to southwest with window to loft with leaded lights, to southeast with plaque dated 1898 and initials FGMB. Interior: fireplace to southeast; access to loft by ladder.
Information from (S1).
S. Spooner (NLA) 12 April 2006
April 2011. Norfolk NMP.
Some of the garden features described above are visible on aerial photographs (S2-S3).
E. Bales (NMP), 13 April 2011.
Monument Types
- ESTATE COTTAGE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- GARDEN WALL (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- GATE (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- GAZEBO (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
- KITCHEN GARDEN (Post Medieval - 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Associated Finds - none
Protected Status
Sources and further reading
| <S1> | Designation: English Heritage. National Heritage List for England. |
| <S2> | Vertical Aerial Photograph: RAF. 1946. RAF 106G/UK/1429 4167-8 16-APR-1946 (NMR). |
| <S3> | Oblique Aerial Photograph: Edwards, D, NLA. 1990. NHER TG1602C-F 03-JUL-1990 (NLA 269/GCB3-6). |
Related records
| 9501 | Part of: Ketteringham Hall and Stables (Building) |
| 44333 | Part of: Ketteringham Park (Monument) |
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