Ashby St Ledgers, Daventry, England

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

Formal statue lawn of around 1700 and extensive gardens, mainly formal, of 1904-35 by Sir Edwin Lutyens associated with a country house, also with much work by Lutyens. Gardens, over which Gertrude Jekyll was consulted, extend into informal park-like grounds with lake.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

The village of Ashby St Ledgers lies east of the A361 from Rugby, 10 kilometres to the north, to Daventry, 6 kilometres to the south. The southern part of the park is crossed by the Jurassic Way, and two kilometres to the north-east is the Watford Gap. The manor stands at the east end of the Main Street, on the north side of the churchyard. The site is bounded to the west and north by a minor road off Main Street, and otherwise by field boundaries. The area here registered is roughly 20 hectares.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Country Life, 110 (17 August 1951), pp 496-9; no 14 (2 April 1987), pp 104-5

N Pevsner and B Cherry, The Buildings of England: Northamptonshire (1973), pp 90-3

C Aslet, The Last Country Houses (1982), pp 158-9

J Harris, The Architect and the British Country House 1620-1920 (1985), pp 258-9

J Brown, Lutyens and the Edwardians (1996), pp 243-6

Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1901

OS 25" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1900
 

Description written: 1998

Edited: January 2000