Stoke Rochford Hall, Grantham, England

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

Mid-19th-century formal gardens designed by W A Nesfield and William Burn, set beside a large country house and surrounded by a mid-18th-century landscaped park with Roman, medieval, and 17th-century connections.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Stoke Rochford Hall occupies a rural setting about 7 kilometres to the south of Grantham, on the west side of the main A1 which forms its eastern boundary. The roughly 140 hectare site, which is enclosed by dense plantations, is bordered to the south by South Stoke village, to the west by a private road to Home Farm, and to the north by farmland. The Cringle Brook winds from south to north for about 2 kilometres through the park, creating a valley with rolling ground rising up from it to the east and west. This landform gives rise to fine views from the Hall north along the valley of the Brook, and east across the rising ground.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

The Gardener, (1874), p 408

Country Life, 10 (9 November 1901), pp 592-7

G Jekyll, Garden Ornament (1918), p 248

N Pevsner et al, The Buildings of England: Lincolnshire (1989), pp 720-2

H Thorold, Lincolnshire Houses (1999), pp 167-8

T R Leach, guidebook, A short history of Stoke Rochford Hall (no date)

Maps

Capt A Armstrong, Map of the County of Lincolnshire, 1779 (Lincolnshire Archives)

Enclosure award for Stoke Rochford, 1799 (Kesteven Award 70), (Lincolnshire Archives)

OS 1" to 1 mile: 1st edition published 1824

OS 6" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1905

OS 25" to 1 mile: 2nd edition published 1904
 

Description written: June 2001

Edited: June 2002

Amended October 2002