Denham Place, Uxbridge, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest. 

A late 17th century country house surrounded by a compact 1760s-1770s landscape park, possibly by Lancelot Brown, overlaid on the remains of a formal late 17th century garden.

DESCRIPTION

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Denham Place lies 4 kilometres north-west of Uxbridge and 4 kilometres east of Gerrards Cross, at the west end of Denham's main street, Village Road, in the broad River Colne valley at the eastern end of the Chiltern Hills. The 17 hectare site is bounded to the west by the A412 Denham Avenue, to the south by Village Road running off Denham Avenue into the main street, and to the north and east by agricultural land and public footpaths. Much of the boundary is defined by a 1 kilometre long, 3 metre high, 17th to 19th century red-brick wall (Listed Grade II), with a coping of vertically laid bricks raked to a point. This runs south from the north-east corner of the park, broken by occasional gateways, encircling the southern end of the estate and running north to just north of the road bridge over the River Misbourne on the west boundary. The site is largely flat, with a low rise running from west to east across the middle, north of the house, defined by fruit trees and modern conifers. The setting to the east is dominated by the adjacent village; the remainder is agricultural interspersed with small mid- to late- 20th century settlements and busy trunk roads to the west and south. There are few views out of the estate as the area is largely visually self-contained.

REFERENCES

J Garden History 8, nos 2 & 3 (April-September 1988), pp 235-6

Country Life, 18 (18 November 1905), pp 702-9; 57 (18 April 1925), pp 602-9; (25 April 1925), pp 642-53; 116 (15 July 1954), p 209

D Stroud, Capability Brown (1975), p 222

J Harris, The Artist and the Country House (1979), p 123, pl 14

N Pevsner and E Williamson, The Buildings of England: Buckinghamshire (1994), pp 270-273

Maps

Map of the parish of Denham, 1783 (Ma/W/99), (Buckinghamshire Record Office)

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1883

    2nd edition published 1900

    3rd edition published 1932

OS 25" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1881-1882

    2nd edition published 1899

Description written: 1997

Edited: June 1999