Introduction
Features of Washingley Hall included a kitchen garden, fishponds, curved garden walls, lawns, a summerhouse and a lily pond.
To the east of the house the walls of the kitchen garden still remain and the fishponds are beneath the mature trees which once formed the pleasure grounds. The curved garden wall foundations from the south front of the house can also be found in the grass. These stone walls had arched recesses with seating. A paved terrace leads directly onto the extensive south lawn. It is interesting to note that during the early-18th century, Charles Bridgeman bought an inn for his wife in Stilton, and may have been involved in the garden at Washingley.
When Lord Cobham acquired the property, the south gardens contained clipped yews around flower beds, and there was a summer house and lily pond. The south garden would have been bounded by the moat. The stable block to the west is now a farm. All these are within a park with fishponds, pheasantry and stew ponds.
- History
Washingley Hall is to the west of the village of Stilton near to the remains of a castle. The house was built in the 17th century, remodelled and enlarged in the 18th century, on the site of an earlier property.
- Features & Designations
Features
- Garden Wall
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- Pond
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- Fishpond
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- Lawn
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- Kitchen Garden
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- Summerhouse
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- House (featured building)
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- Key Information
Type
Garden
Purpose
Ornamental
Principal Building
Domestic / Residential
Survival
Lost
Civil Parish
Folksworth and
- References
Contributors
Cambridgeshire Gardens Trust