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Description:  The earthwork remains of a Jacobean manor house and surrounding formal gardens immediately west and south of St Maurice's Church. The manor house was built between 1607 and 1620 for Sir Thomas Darrell and was the predecessor of the mid-Georgian Horkstow Hall which is sited some 900 metres to the north. It is believed that the house was demolished by 1772. When the house was demolished most of the building materials were removed for reuse elsewhere. This has left a set of depressions up to 2 metres deep marking the former cellars of the house with a level terrace to the east and a broad grassy ramp extending downhill westwards. Beyond, and to either side of this ramp there are slight earthworks extending up to a well defined, 150 metre long linear depression. This depression is marked as a fishpond on a 1761 plan of the site. It is a formal water feature, known as a canal, which is characteristic of Jacobean gardens. The bank to its west would have formed a walkway. Further earthwork features can be identified and related to the 1761 plan. These include a sunken garden cut into the north of the terrace at the rear of the manor house and a long thin east-west enclosure which survives as a depression that runs downhill towards the canal. To the south of the church is a terraced walkway which runs north-south above a level area cut into the hillside. At the centre, the walkway terrace bulges westwards to form a prospect platform and at either end there is a graded ramp providing access to the level area below, which would have contained formal gardens. Running along the walkway there is an avenue of lime trees which is considered to have been part of the original planting arrangement. Scheduled.

Country:  ENGLAND

County:  HUMBERSIDE

District:  NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE

Parish:  HORKSTOW

Grid Reference:   SE98601816

Map Reference:  [EPSG:27700] 498600, 418160

Period:  POST MEDIEVAL, 1772, 1607 - 1620

Subject:  EARTHWORK, FORMAL GARDEN, LIME WALK, MANOR HOUSE, PROSPECT MOUND, SUNKEN GARDEN, TERRACED WALK

Identifiers: 
[ADS] Depositor Id: SE 91 NE 9
[ADS] Import RCN: NMR_NATINV-63642

People Involved: 
[Publisher] Historic England