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Nanpantan Hall

Introduction

The site has a Victorian house with a 0.8 hectare walled garden dating from around 1850. There are also Messenger greenhouses built in the 1880s. The house was home to the Paget family including Arthur Paget, the inventor of the land drainage system. The walled kitchen garden received a grant for restoration form the Heritage Lottery Fund in 2004.

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Features & Designations

Features

  • Glasshouse
  • Description: Two Messenger greenhouses, both lean-to.
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  • Kitchen Garden
  • Description: A kitchen garden on a south-facing sloping site, with one south-facing buttressed wall.
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  • Orchard
  • Description: The orchard contains both existing trees and newly-planted local varieties.
  • Espalier
  • Description: Some of the fruit trees are espaliered on the wall.
  • Wall
  • Description: Garden wall in poor condition.
  • Walled Garden
  • Greenhouse
Key Information

Type

Garden

Principal Building

Domestic / Residential

Survival

Part: standing remains

Hectares

0.8

Open to the public

Yes

Electoral Ward

Loughborough Nanpantan

References

Contributors

  • Gill Wilde