Monument record 2929/2/8 - The Monkey Pond Garden, Cottesbrooke Hall

A sunken courtyard garden with rectangular pool laid out 1911-14 to designs by Schultz.

{1} West of the Hall is a series of linked pleasure gardens, laid out since the early C20. The Scottish designer Robert Weir Schultz and Geoffrey Jellicoe were commissioned to work at Cottesbrooke before the Second World War and, after it, Dame Sylvia Crowe. Lady Catherine Macdonald-Buchanan provided much of the inspiration after 1937. Adjoining the west side of the Hall is the Monkey Pond garden, a sunken courtyard garden with rectangular pool laid out 1911-14 to designs by Schultz.

{2} A little sunken garden beside the north east corner of the house. This is rather inelegantly called the Monkey Pool because of a fountain in the form of a monkey in the middle of a rectangular pool. This garden is paved with rectangular slabs of irregular size, and one end of the pool is backed by a low brick wall with a domes recess into which the water flows.

<1> English Heritage, 1994, Register of Parks & Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England (1994, Northamptonshire), (part checked) (Report). SNN1324.

<2> 1986, Country Life (1986), May 15 p.1328 (unchecked) (Journal). SNN17524.

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Mar 10 2021 11:42AM