Introduction
This is a combe garden on an earlier monastic site. Features include early terraces, a sunken lawn, a flagged courtyard, stone seat and trough, iron pump anad early garden walls and mature trees. This record was checked with South Gloucestershire Historic Records and Monument Officer - June 2010.
This is a combe garden on an earlier monastic site. Features include early terraces, a sunken lawn, a flagged courtyard, a stone seat and trough, an iron pump, a statue of a young orphan woman, an early garden wall with finials, mature trees and an Amelanchier Walk.
The late-15th-century house is listed grade II, and was altered around 1700. The house was extended in the 18th century, altered in 1800 and restored around 1970-1980. The grade II gothic garden building dates from the late-18th or early-19th century and was restored in the 1970s with battlements added.
- Features & Designations
Designations
Conservation Area
- Reference: Hawkesbury
The National Heritage List for England: Listed Building
- Reference: Old Vicarage
- Grade: II
Features
- House (featured building)
- Earliest Date:
- Latest Date:
- Terrace
- Lawn
- Description: A sunken lawn.
- Courtyard
- Description: Flagged courtyard.
- Garden Seat
- Description: Stone seat.
- Garden Ornament
- Description: Stone trough.
- Garden Ornament
- Description: Iron pump.
- Statue
- Description: Statue of a young woman.
- Wall
- Description: There is an early garden wall with finials.
- Tree Feature
- Description: Mature trees.
- Tree Feature
- Description: Amalancia walk.
- Key Information
Type
Garden
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
Survival
Extant
Hectares
2.2
Civil Parish
Hawkesbury
- References
Contributors
Avon Gardens Trust