Cowdray Park,

The Ruins of Cowdray House Listed 18.6.59, Grade 1

Ruins of a fine stone mansion comprising a complete courtyard with gatehouse, hall with oriel windows, chapel, kitchen, etc. The east and north sides were built by Sir David Owen in 1492 circa, the west and south sides by Sir William Fitzwilliam, later Earl of Southampton, in 1533 circa. Further alterations were made by the latter's half-brother, Sir Anthony Browne, and his son, the first Viscount Montague. It remained the home of the Montague family until partly destroyed by fire in 1792. Ashlar with quoins of a different coloured stone. Castellated parapet. Casement windows. Large bays of two storeys with two tiers of six lights. The gatehouse was on the west side. Four- centred carriage archway flanked by octagonal turrets of three storeys. Hall and chapel on east side of the courtyard.

Listing NGR: SU8914021677

All photos and annotations of Cowdray Castle/Ruins taken by Helen Hinkley in 1930s

The Gatehouse tower, of Cowdray Castle, from the velvet bedchamber where Queen Elizabeth slept.

Inside the octagonal Tudor kitchen at Cowdray Castle

Part of the eastern range, Cowdray

Granary adjoining the Ruins of Cowdray House on the south west

Listed 18.6.59, Grade II

Granary. Small square C17 timber-framed building with red brick infilling. East gable end tile-hung. Half hipped tiled roof. Stands on staddle stones.

Listing NGR: SU8908221642

Photo and annotations by The Granary and Kitchen Tower Helen Hinkley in 1930s

The Gates of Cowdray House (formerly listed under North Street (east side) as Gates to Cowdray Ruins)

Listed 18.6.59, Grade II

Gates. These Gates formerly stood on the east side of North Street in Midhurst. They were moved to this site when the road was widened and car park made. C18. Ashlar gate-piers surmounted by urns on two-tiered bases with upright voluted brackets on the outer sides. Between the piers wrought-iron gates of six sections with cresting of fleur-de-lys.

Listing NGR: SU8904721710 Photo from Charles White Collection

The former Stables of Old Cowdray House Listed 18.6.59, Grade II

Stables, now a farm building. Built by Photo to be added Anthony, Sixth Viscount Montague, in 1726. Half H-plan, the wings being of unequal length. Stone rubble. Modillion eaves cornice, hipped tiled roof. The north west wing, originally the coach-house has two round-headed archway with keystones and two tall sash windows with glazing bars.

Listing NGR: SU8904521610

Nos c114 and c116

Listed 26.11.87, Grade II

One building, possibly a farm building originally. Then converted into four Photo to be added cottages. Now two. C18. Coursed stone with red brick dressings. Tiled roof. Casement windows. Later L- wing to north east, not included.

Listing NGR: SU8909121621

The Round Tower or Water Tower of Cowdray House to the north west of the Ruins (formerly listed as The Round House)

Listed 18.6.59, Grade II

Conduit house, and used to be the Custodian's office for visiting the Ruins. Late C16. Octagonal stone conduit-house with pyramidal tiled roof with ball cap. One storey only.

Listing NGR: SU8911921801

The Old Bothy

Listed 16.06.2011, Grade II

The Old Bothy, a gardeners' bothy for Cowdray Park built in the early C20. The Old Bothy, Cowdray Park, an early C20 estate building providing accommodation for unmarried gardeners, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architecture and intactness: a substantially intact estate building which is unusual in its design, well-detailed externally and which retains the majority of its internal features including extensive glazed wall tiling * Rarity: as an unusual building type which is only, inevitably, found associated with large country houses or estates which had a requirement for gardeners in some numbers * Group value: the old bothy is located within the registered landscape of Cowdray Park (Grade II*), in close proximity to the fine Victorian mansion of Cowdray Park which it served. It also has group value with the kitchen garden, stable yard and other historic estate buildings which are located to the immediate north of the old bothy.

Photo to be added Coach House, Stable Yard and Associated Cottages 118 and 119

Listed 16.06.2011, Grade II

Coach house, stable yard and associated pair of cottages, mid-C19 to early C20 with late C20-early C21 alterations.

The stable yard to Cowdray Park, comprising stable ranges, a coach house and a pair of associated cottages, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Form and intactness: a substantially intact estate stable yard with an attractive coach house entrance range and some surviving stalls * Date: two stable ranges which are of early to mid C19 origin presumed to have been constructed to serve Cowdray Lodge after it became the family residence in the 1790s and subsequently enlarged and aggrandised in the late C19 as the Lodge was remodelled as the Victorian mansion Cowdray Park * Group value: the stable yard buildings are located within the registered landscape of Cowdray Park (Grade II*), in close proximity to the fine Victorian mansion of Cowdray Park which it served. It also has group value with the kitchen garden and other historic estate buildings which are located to the immediate west and south of the stable yard

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Listed 16.06.2011, Grade II

Kitchen Garden to Cowdray Park, built by 1808 and may date to the last years of the C18, with C19 and C20 alterations and additions.

The kitchen garden to Cowdray Park, comprising garden walls, gardener's buildings and a glasshouse, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Form and intactness: a substantially intact hexagonal kitchen garden which has impressive brick walls and surviving garden buildings, built to provide produce for Cowdray Lodge, subsequently remodelled as the mansion Cowdray Park * Date: a kitchen garden which was built before 1808 and possibly in the very last years of the C18 when the family moved from Cowdray House to Cowdray Lodge in the 1790s * Group value: the kitchen garden is located within the registered landscape of Cowdray Park (Grade II*), in close proximity to the fine Victorian mansion of Cowdray Park which it served. It also has group value with the coach house, stable yard and other historic estate buildings which are located to the immediate east and south of the garden. In particular, it has strong group value with the old bothy which provided accommodation for Cowdray Park's unmarried gardeners from the early C20 onwards

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Listed 16.06.2011, Grade II

Cowdray Park, a Victorian country house built by the 7th Earl Egmont in 1875 incorporating a late C18 service wing of a former keeper's lodge, alterations and extensions of the early, mid and late C20.

Cowdray Park, a Victorian country house built by the seventh Earl of Egmont in the 1870s, is designated at Grade II for the following principal reasons: * Architectural interest: a handsome and beautifully crafted Victorian country house which draws on historicist and vernacular styling to create a striking building, clustered in an organic fashion around a dominant Tudor-style stair tower and the baronial Buck Hall * Interiors: sumptuous and impressive interiors, particularly the monumental stair tower and Buck Hall around which the house-plan has been composed, but with many other fixtures and fittings of a high calibre, from the highly accomplished Jacobean panelling of the Silver Room to the fitted cupboards and enunciators in the servants quarters * Intactness: the high quality 1870s design remains evident with the key set-pieces of the Victorian composition surviving well * Group value: with the associated Grade II* registered park and garden which surrounds the house, and also with its kitchen garden, stable yard and other contemporary estate buildings to the immediate south of the house

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