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Nunwick Landscape Park (Simonburn)

Pleasure ground (c.6ha), landscape park (c.55ha) 1760s, walled garden (c.0.4ha). House set on a plateau with gently sloping lawns to east, view to parkland and river. Folly and other structures around grounds. Two plans of the grounds in 1760 exist, one shows the executed layout. Parkland contains lawns near the house and a bridge crossing Simonburn. There is a folly or mock ruin of 1768, it is situated within an grass plot enclosed by castellated walls. An arch leads to a paved court with a central pool. A spiral column shaft is nearby. A tree-lined drive leads from the entrance gates to the southeast of the park. The walled garden contains a camellia house and a rose colection. The office court contains a clock of 1764. The stables were constructed 1798-99. (1)

Described by Wallis in 1769 as '... a grove to the west, a grass lawn to the south, and a terraced gravel walk to the east ... two brooks unite ... to give beauty and ornament to a neat garden'. There is a wild garden nearer the house. (2)

A design for a hot wall dated 1789 is in Northumberland Records Office. (3)

Evidence of a deer park is not obvious from map evidence, but record of ownership by John Comyn in 1329. (4)

Landscape park and pleasure grounds to Nunwick laid out during the 1760s. The grounds may have been designed by the owner Lancelot Allgood. (5a)
N7920
Post Medieval (1540 to 1901)
Medieval (1066 to 1540)
Listed Building


Source of Reference
Local History of Simonburn

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