Walled Kitchen Garden Register
Form no: 22
Name of House
Address
Ownership
Hartpury House
Hartpury, Glos GL19 3BE
College
OS grid ref
Date original
wkg established
Any other key
dates in
development
Size of walled
garden(s), slips
Approximately 47m x 47m
What features
are known to be
present
Wall, doors, gates
Glasshouses
Frames
Pits
Hotwalls/furnaces
Heating pipes/boilers
etc.
Backsheds, workrooms,
stores
Animal housing, stables
etc
Gardener’s house(s),
cottage(s), bothies
Wells, ponds, tanks,
towers
Pre-dates Thomas
Mawson’s redesigning of
the ornamental grounds
Current condition
Walls need re-pointing, two wrought iron gates
in need of repair
5 in good condition
3 in reasonable condition
Working in one frame and in one glasshouse
Bothy in working order attached to the outside
walls
Other key
features
Current use
Kitchen garden, teaching resource
Planting – crops
under glass,
trees etc.
Bush fruit, vegetables, cut flowers, gardens edged with Buxus
sempervirens, National Collection of Osmanthus (in process), Prairie
planting border, glasshouses used for over-wintering, bedding and
propagation
Any other
information
Further contact
details (phone,
email etc.)
Carol Collins 01452 702376
carol.collins@hartpury.ac.uk
Record compiled
by
Carol Collins
Date
17.01.12