Structures within Designed Landscapes
It is important to understand the component parts of designed landscapes and the typical features within these landscapes including built structures.
The many types of structures that can be found within designed landscapes have been described by Historic England. These fall into overlapping categories relating to pleasure, utility and recreation.
Built structures relating to pleasure and decoration include: columns, obelisks, romantic ruins, temples, hermitages, grottoes, statuary, urns, sundials, pools, rills, fountains, cascades, ha-has, hunting lodges, banqueting houses, gazebos and summer houses.
Built structures of utility and decoration include: entrance lodges, gates and gateways bridges, ornamental paths and surfaces, garden walls, glasshouses, orangeries, vinehouses, game larders, ice houses, ornamental dairies, well houses, conduit heads, menagerie buildings, aviaries, kennels, dovecots and animal graves within pet cemeteries.
Built structures relating to recreation include boat houses, cold baths and plunge pools.
Examples of most of these structures can either be found as surviving features within designed landscapes on the Island or are known to have existed previously. The inventory of designed landscapes maintained by the Isle of Wight Gardens Trust includes details of structures occurring within individual sites, but no overall gazetteer of these structures has been compiled.
It is important to understand the component parts of designed landscapes and the typical features within these landscapes including built structures.
The many types of structures that can be found within designed landscapes have been described by Historic England. These fall into overlapping categories relating to pleasure, utility and recreation.
Built structures relating to pleasure and decoration include: columns, obelisks, romantic ruins, temples, hermitages, grottoes, statuary, urns, sundials, pools, rills, fountains, cascades, ha-has, hunting lodges, banqueting houses, gazebos and summer houses.
Built structures of utility and decoration include: entrance lodges, gates and gateways bridges, ornamental paths and surfaces, garden walls, glasshouses, orangeries, vinehouses, game larders, ice houses, ornamental dairies, well houses, conduit heads, menagerie buildings, aviaries, kennels, dovecots and animal graves within pet cemeteries.
Built structures relating to recreation include boat houses, cold baths and plunge pools.
Examples of most of these structures can either be found as surviving features within designed landscapes on the Island or are known to have existed previously. The inventory of designed landscapes maintained by the Isle of Wight Gardens Trust includes details of structures occurring within individual sites, but no overall gazetteer of these structures has been compiled.