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Localisation | Latitude: 52.342885 Longitude: -1.2773423 National Grid Reference: SP 49329 71891 Map: Download a full scale map (PDF) |
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Overview | Heritage Category: Park and Garden Grade: II List Entry Number: 1001378 Date first listed: 14-Dec-1997 |
Mid Victorian gardens and pleasure grounds set in a small park accompanying a country
house designed by A W N Pugin,together with a walled garden to Pugin's design.
HISTORIC DEVELOPMENT In the mid C12 Pipewell Abbey,Northamptonshire,acquired a grange
in the parish of Bilton.At the Dissolution in 1539,the grange was bought by its tenant,Edward
Boughton,in whose family it remained until 1768,when it formed part of the marriage
settlement of Anna Boughton and Alexander Hume.By 1780 a farmhouse accompanied by
gardens,outbuildings and orchards stood on the site of the present mansion.Abraham
Hume inherited Bilton Grange from his father in 1794,and in 1819 Francis Smith referred
to it as a 'handsome house'.Hume was,however,forced to take a series of mortgages
on the estate in the early C19,and in 1839 it was let to Capt John Washington Hibbert,his
widowed mother,and his elder brother Thomas,described as 'lunatic'(Edwards 1996).Hibbert(1805-75)was
the son of a Jamaican plantation owner,and cousin of George Hibbert,MP (1757-1837),described
by J C Loudon as an encourager 'of exotic botany' (Loudon 1822).Hibbert married in
1839 Julia Talbot(nee Titchbourne),widow of Lt Col Charles Talbot,brother of the fifteenth
Earl of Shrewsbury whose son by this marriage,Bertram(b1832),in 1852 succeeded as
seventeenth Earl.In 1841 Hibbert commissioned plans for a modest extension to Bilton
Grange from Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin(1812-52).Following the death of his brother
Thomas in 1845,Hibbert purchased the estate from Abraham Hume in April 1846,and the
same year commissioned fresh plans from Pugin.The choice by Hibbert of Pugin may have
resulted from the architect's connections with the sixteenth Earl of Shrewsbury,for
whom he built Alton Towers,Staffordshire(qv)at a similar date,there working alongside
W A Nesfield(1793-1881).In 1861,five years after the seventeenth Earl's death at the
age of twenty-four,Bilton Grange was offered for sale,and was purchased by John Lancaster(d
1884),an iron and coal magnate and MP for Wigan.Lancaster's heirs sold Bilton Grange
in 1887 to the Rev Walter Earle,but retained neighbouring Dunchurch Lodge (qv).The
Rev Earle opened the house as a preparatory school,in which use it continues(1999).
DESCRIPTION LOCATION,AREA,BOUNDARIES,LANDFORM,SETTING Bilton Grange stands mainly
in the parish of Bilton,but the boundary with the parish of Dunchurch passes through
the grounds to the south-west of the house.The site lies C700m north-east of St Peter's
church,Dunchurch, and some 2.5km to the south-west of Rugby.The 50ha site comprises
C11ha of gardens and pleasure grounds,and C39ha of parkland,and occupies the level
summit of a ridge of high ground which runs north-east from Dunchurch.The agricultural
land beyond the park falls steeply away to the south-east,thus providing extensive
views in this direction into Northamptonshire,the boundary with which county lies
C1.3km south-east of the house.The northern boundary is formed by public roads:the
B4429 Ashlawn Road and,further to the west,the A426 Rugby Road.To the west the area
is defined by a public footpath,fenced off from the park,with a scatter of private
houses and their gardens occupying the ground between this and Rugby Road.To the south
lie the grounds of Dunchurch Lodge(qv).
ENTRANCES AND APPROACHES Today(1999)the site is approached from the A426 Rugby Road
at its junction with Northampton Lane,C400m north-west of the house.The entrance is
flanked by low,late C20 reconstituted stone wing walls,and a two-storey lodge(listed
grade II),dated 1883 and constructed in pale brick,stands within the site to the north
of the drive.The mid C19 estate gas works which stood to the north-east of the lodge(sale
particulars,1861)do not survive.The tarmac drive passes south-east for C130m through
an avenue of limes,before reaching a small,late C19 red-brick inner lodge(not shown
on the 1886 OS 6" map;listed grade II).The field to the south of the drive and outside
the site here registered has(1999) permission for housing development.The inner lodge
marks the boundary of the western park,and the point at which the drive is crossed
by the public footpath which runs north from Dunchurch.The drive continues through
an avenue of limes for C160m to reach the mid C19 stable court and mid and late C20
school buildings and sports facilities which lie to the west of the house.The present
drive was constructed in the late C19 by John Lancaster,and replaced an earlier approach
from the north.This drive,which is shown on the OS 1" map (1834),left the A426 road
at the south-west end of Cock Robin Plantation,C400m north-west of the house,and swept
east and south across the northern park.Some 260m north-east of the house the drive
entered an avenue of limes which was planted prior to 1855(plan annexed to indenture
of that date).The lime avenue runs C700m north-east across the park to North Lodge(listed
grade II),a two-storey,brick,gabled structure which was built after 1861,possibly
to designs by E W Pugin for John Lancaster,and which gives access to the site from
the B4429 Ashlawn Road.The drive running through the avenue,today(1999) a grassy track,was
created after 1861.Both the early C19 drive and the mid C19 drive turn south-west
and pass through a pair of brick and stone gate piers (listed grade II)designed by
A W N Pugin to enter the 'shrubbery avenue'(sale particulars,1861),which today survives
as evergreen shrubbery and mature trees.The shrubbery frames a vista of the tower,porte-cochère
and front door,which are aligned on the axis of the avenue.The walled forecourt with
entrance gates to the north shown in sale particulars of 1861 was replaced C1890 when
the school chapel was built to the west,and a classroom block to the east;the north
side of the forecourt was left open.Today (1999) the forecourt is used for car parking
and the semicircular lawn below the entrance tower shown in 1861 has been removed.
PRINCIPAL BUILDING Bilton Grange(listed grade II*)stands to the south of the centre
of the site.A W N Pugin was initially called in by Capt John Washington Hibbert in
1841 to design a modest extension to the existing C18 farmhouse(lithograph of elevation,V&A
Museum);this plan remained unexecuted.Following his purchase of the estate in 1846,Hibbert
recalled Pugin and commissioned a more ambitious scheme for a substantial two- and
three-storey,red-brick country house.The C18 house was retained to the west of Pugin's
building,adjacent to a new stable court,while a conservatory with a gothic timber
roof was built against the south wall of the stables overlooking the gardens.Pugin's
house is roughly L-shaped on plan and contains the principal reception rooms which
overlook the gardens and park to the east and south.A gallery runs the full length
of the building and connects with the older house to the south-west.Pugin and his
builder,George Myers,found Hibbert a difficult patron,and it is possible that the
general plan was due to their client(Illustrated London News 1855;Atterbury and Wainwright
1994).The chapel forming the west side of the forecourt was rebuilt in 1889 by Garlick
and Sykes,and the east wing containing school rooms was built for the Rev Earle in
1891.To the west of the house stand several brick outbuildings converted to school
use,and a variety of mid and late C20 school classrooms and sports facilities.Some
190m west of the house,Homefield,an early C20 house with late C20 additions,is now
(1999)a nursery school.
GARDENS AND PLEASURE GROUNDS Lying to the south and east of the house,the gardens
comprise formal lawns,avenues and an area of informal walks adjacent to the southern
boundary of the site.To the east of the house,below the windows of the former Library
and Drawing Room,and reached by a door in the south facade leading from the Gallery,is
a stone-flagged terrace enclosed by a 'noble open-work stone terrace wall,formed by
a Register of the date of the House[1846],beautifully and quaintly cut in Old Letter'(sale
particulars,1861).The terrace overlooks a level lawn approached by stone steps at
the south-east corner of the terrace,which is enclosed to the north by the late C19
east wing and a mid C20 school hall,while to the south a grass bank rises to the level
of the formal gardens to the south of the house.In the C19 and early C20 this lawn
was dominated by a mature tree,which an aerial photograph of C1930 shows to have been
removed and replaced by a simple formal garden.A gravel walk extends below the south
facade of the house,separating it from level lawns which are contained by raised walks
along the west and south sides.The 1861 sale catalogue indicates that the lawns were
then laid out with an arrangement of formal geometric beds.Parallel to,and C10m from
the south facade,is a cross walk aligned on a sunken circular pool at its eastern
end,and widened as a circular feature at the midway point across the formal lawns.Some
60m south of the house a second cross walk,now(1999) partially levelled at its eastern
end,divides the formal lawns from a bowling green,which is in turn enclosed to the
south by a further raised cross walk C100m from the house.This outline,with the two
paths joining the west and east ends of the two surviving cross walks,is the earliest
part of the Victorian layout,predating 1855(indenture plan).The retaining walls,balustrades
and urns shown in the 1861 sale catalogue do not survive,but C19 specimen conifers
remain to the east of the lawns,with specimen Irish yews adjacent to the northern
cross walk.A late C20 swimming pool has been constructed C100m south of the house,in
an area of informal lawns and shrubbery to the east of the formal garden.Aligned on
the door on the south facade leading from the Gallery,and projecting the axis of that
room into the gardens,a straight walk extends southwards for C100m across the lawns,and
continues for C190m as the central path through an avenue of monkey puzzles,which
are planted on raised earth mounds and alternate with specimen yews.At the southern
end of the avenue,beyond a late C20 painted timber seat,stands a single central monkey
puzzle flanked by a pair of western hemlocks.A row of yews,at some date headed at
2m,line a subsidiary path which runs parallel to the avenue on its east side.To the
west,a similar path is lined by mature copper beech and a variety of specimen trees
underplanted with holly and specimen shrubs.Walks leading south-west and south-east
from the monkey puzzle avenue enter an area of winding paths which weave through a
complex of undulating banks,on which are planted a variety of C19 and C20 ornamental
trees,underplanted with laurel and a range of hollies.Parallel,and to the west of
the beech walk and monkey puzzle avenue,forming the western boundary of the pleasure
grounds,is a second north/south axial walk which is marked by an avenue of Deodar
cedars.This walk is aligned to the north on the mid C19 conservatory to the west of
the house.The line of the walk,but not the avenue trees,is shown on the 1861 sale
plan,at which date the western boundary still had to assume its present straight line;both
the boundary realignment and planting were completed by 1886(OS).The southern extension
of the pleasure grounds,including the avenues,post-dates 1855 (indenture plan)but
was laid out within a framework of boundaries which had been established by that date,and
which included a narrow plantation of oak along the southern boundary.
PARK The main area of parkland lies to the north of the house,and is bisected unequally
by the lime avenue leading from the house to North Lodge.The park is screened from
the public road to the north and north-west by Cock Robin Plantation,which incorporates
a closely planted screen of Wellingtonia.Within the Plantation,well screened from
the park by a dense under-planting of evergreen shrubs,stand Cock Robin Buildings(listed
grade II),formerly an inn but today(1999) private residences.The Buildings and their
associated gardens are not included in the area here registered.The Plantation post-dates
1855(indenture plan),prior to which the park boundary ran parallel to,but C150m south-east
of the public road,but predates 1861 (sale particulars).The western or larger section
of the north park is laid out with sports pitches among a light distribution of specimen
trees,several of which are boundary oaks retained from the earlier field system.Two
sports pavilions accompany the pitches,while a miniature golf course has been constructed
parallel to the western boundary of the park(1998).East of the lime avenue the park
remains mown grass with scattered specimen trees,and is divided from fields which
fall away to the east by fencing which joins three small areas of woodland.At the
southern end of Fox Covert,also known as Bath Wood,C270m north-east of the house,is
an early C20 open-air swimming pool and associated timber changing rooms(disused 1999),formed
from an earlier pool.The parkland on the east-facing slope below the house is today
(1999) in arable cultivation,but retains scattered groups of Wellingtonia,together
with oaks from hedgerows which were removed in the course of mid C19 improvements.
Some 350m south-east of the house,and immediately outside the area here registered,are
the buildings of Dunchurch Lodge Farm,which until 1887 formed part of the Bilton Grange
estate.
KITCHEN GARDEN Lying some 200m south-west of the house,the brick-walled kitchen garden(listed
grade II)occupies the south-west corner of the site,to the west and parallel to the
southern end of the Deodar cedar avenue.The kitchen garden has four entrances,one
in the centre of each wall,those to the north,east and west being closed by an oak
double door set in a stone gothic arch,with a small,fish-scale-tiled porch roof above
on the inner face of the wall.The entrance in the south wall has been removed;when
in existence it led to glasshouses constructed against the outer face of this wall(no
longer surviving,1999),a slip garden,and a path leading to the informal walks to the
south of the cedar and monkey puzzle avenues.The garden is today laid to grass,with
late C20 ornamental planting against the inner face of the north and west walls.A
central,sunken,octagonal dipping pool surrounded by stone kerbs and a paved walk was
originally approached by four flights of stone steps,only two of which survive today.These
were aligned on the four doors set in the garden walls.Walks dividing the garden into
quarters do not survive.The internal arrangement of the kitchen garden is shown on
an aerial photograph of 1947,at which date it remained in full cultivation.A 20m deep
slip garden which runs parallel to the eastern wall is divided from the pleasure grounds
by a hedge of Portuguese laurel.Adjoining the outer north-west corner,and at the end
of a holly-hedged slip garden beyond the north wall which remains(1999)in cultivation
as a vegetable and flower garden,stands a mid C19 two-storey brick gardener's house(listed
grade II).A ground-floor window in the south facade allows oversight of the walled
garden.The walled garden and the gardener's house formed part of A W N Pugin's mid
C19 scheme for Capt Hibbert(indenture plan,1855;sale particulars,1861).
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of Gardening (1822), p 84 J Burke, A Visitation of the Seats ... i, (2), (1852), p
157 Illustrated London News, 27 January 1855, p 93 [engraving] M H Bloxam, Bilton
Grange (1887) W O Waite, Rugby Past and Present (1893), p 279 Victoria History of
the County of Warwick VI, (1951), pp 31-2 N Pevsner and A Wedgewood, The Buildings
of England: Warwickshire (1966), pp 94-5 P Stanton, Pugin (1971), pp 176-7, 200 A
Wedgewood, A W N Pugin and the Pugin Family (1985) G Tyack, The Country Houses of
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Country Houses (1994), pp 35-7 M Edwards, The History of Bilton Grange before 1887
(1996) Bilton Grange, Register Review Report, (Hazel Fryer Associates 1996) Bilton
Grange near Rugby, A Brief History, (Warwickshire Gardens Trust 1997)
Maps [all held at Warwickshire County Record Office] W Yates and Sons, Map of Warwickshire,
surveyed 1787-9, published 1793 C Oakley, Tithe map for Bilton parish, 1840 (CR569/34)
Tithe map for Dunchurch parish, nd (c 1842) (CR569/92) Plan annexed to indenture dated
3 April 1855 (CR1091/151) Plan of house, offices and conservatory, Sale particulars,
1861 (EAC 411/4) OS Old Series 1" to 1 mile, 1834 OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition published
1886 2nd edition published 1900 3rd edition published 1926 1938 edition OS 25" to
1 mile: 1st edition published 1886 2nd edition published 1905 3rd edition published
1925
Illustrations A W N Pugin, Perspective view of proposed addition to Bilton Grange,
1844 (Victoria and Albert Museum, London) Augustus Butler, Bilton Grange, Co Warwick
The Seat of Captain Washington Hibbert, 1852 (Warwickshire County Record Office) Thomas
Way, Bilton Grange, nd (c 1855), (Warwickshire County Record Office) Engraving, Bilton
Grange - General View, from Sale particulars, 1861 (EAC 411/1), (Warwickshire County
Record Office) Photograph, Bilton Grange from the south-east, c 1880 (Rugby Library
collection) Pan-Aero pictures, aerial photograph postcard view, c 1930 (private collection)
Aerial photograph, 1947 (Warwickshire SMR)
Archival items Deeds and leases for Bilton Grange estate, 1703-1871 (1091/75-155),
(Warwickshire County Record Office) J G Crace papers, including material relating
to construction and decoration of Bilton Grange, mid C19 (Crace MSS/PUG 3), (RIBA)
Sale particulars, 1861 (EAC 411/1), (Warwickshire County Record Office) Sale particulars,
c 1887 (Rugby Library Collection)
Description written: December 1999 Amended: May 2000 Register Inspector: JML Edited:
December 2000
This garden or other land is registered under the Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments Act 1953 within the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens by Historic England for its special historic interest.