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Latitude: 51.0436 / 51°2'36"N
Longitude: -2.1025 / 2°6'8"W
OS Eastings: 392910
OS Northings: 127138
OS Grid: ST929271
Mapcode National: GBR 2YK.H8B
Mapcode Global: FRA 66HC.6QH
Plus Code: 9C3V2VVX+C2
Entry Name: Camellia House and Garden Walls, at Wardour Castle
Listing Date: 6 January 1966
Last Amended: 6 July 1987
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1146006
English Heritage Legacy ID: 321065
ID on this website: 101146006
Location: Wardour, Wiltshire, SP3
County: Wiltshire
Civil Parish: Tisbury
Traditional County: Wiltshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Wiltshire
Church of England Parish: Tisbury St John the Baptist
Church of England Diocese: Salisbury
Tagged with: Architectural structure
TISBURY WARDOUR PARK
ST 92 NW (north side)
4/275 Camellia House and garden walls,
at Wardour Castle (formerly listed
at Kitchen Garden Walls and
6.1.66 Orangery)
GV II*
Camellia house with walls enclosing a large rectangular garden to
south and smaller semi-circular garden to north. 1769 by Richard
Woods for Eighth Lord Arundell. Limestone ashlar Camellia House
has glazed roof, 5-bay front has central steel French windows with
fanlight and two similar steel windows with fanlights either side,
impost band, modillioned cornice to parapet and pediment over
centre three bays. Brick stack attached to right return, brick
walls to rear. Contains six mature camellias, reputed to be among
the earliest specimens introduced to England from the East.
Camellia House built to centre of wall between two enclosures;
north garden has rat-trap bond brick walls with heating flues to
either side and to north of Camellia House, rest of this garden
enclosed by Flemish, English or stretcher bond brick walls, about 4
metres high and with round-arched stone gateways with keystones and
imposts. South garden enclosed by Flemish bond brick walls, about
2.5 metres high. Although the camellias survive, the rest of the
gardens now subject to new uses; mid C20 house built in north-east
corner of north enclosure and swimming pool in west half of south
enclosure.
(Unpublished research by Mrs. F. Cowell on Woods, to be published
in the Journal of the Garden History Society)
Listing NGR: ST9291027067
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