Landscape record 0181605000 - Greenlands

Summary

Nineteenth century gardens and landscaped park at Greenlands House.

Protected Status/Designation

  • Planning Notification Area: Late 19th century gardens at Greenlands

Map

Type and Period (4)

  • GARDEN (Built about 1810, 19th Century - 1800 AD? to 1899 AD)
  • LANDSCAPE PARK (Designed early 1850s, 19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • PRODUCTIVE WALLED GARDEN (Built early 1850s, 19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)
  • PRODUCTIVE WALLED GARDEN (Built early 1870s, 19th Century - 1800 AD to 1899 AD)

Description

Garden dates from the late 19th century and includes an orangery and a walled garden (Grade II). There is also a late 19th century gardener's house (Grade II), and a boat house (B8).
The grounds of a substantial C19 Thames-side country villa, developed in 3 main phases alongside those of the villa. The informal pleasure grounds of c.1810 around the new villa were supplemented in the early 1850s by the park and old kitchen garden, and in the early 1870s by a new kitchen garden and lodges; a final, minor, later C19 phase saw the pleasure grounds extended east. This layout, including much planting, survives largely intact although with some losses around the villa and in the kitchen gardens resulting from the use as a management college since 1946 and construction of new buildings and car parking. It is part of an important group of Thames-side villas along this stretch including Taplow Court, Cliveden, Harleyford, Danesfield, Wittington, Fawley Court (all Bucks), Culham Court and Park Place (both Berkshire). See report for detail (B10).

Sources (3)

  • <8>SBC19002 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire County Museum Archaeological Service. 1998. Historic Parks and Gardens Register Review.
  • <9>SBC19003 Map: c. early C19. OS map 1 inch 1st edition.
  • <10>SBC25398 Unpublished document: Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust. 2020. Greenlands, Hambledon: Understanding Historic Parks and Gardens in Buckinghamshire.

Location

Grid reference Centred SU 7730 8534 (1119m by 598m)
Civil Parish HAMBLEDEN, Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

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Record last edited

Aug 27 2021 11:03AM

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