Monument record MDO4720 - Walled garden near Monk's Mulberry, Spetisbury

A walled garden a little way to the north of the house known as Monk’s Mulberry. The garden is about 90 yards square and is surrounded by a wall of chalk blocks (known as clunch) with a thatched capping . It is probably contemporary with a late 18th-century octagonal building thought to be a gazebo which is now incorporated into the house.

<1> Royal Commission on Historic Monuments, 1970, An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of Dorset, Volume III (Central) Part 2, 245 (Monograph). SDO136.

‘(7) MONK’S MULBERRY (91160214), house, ½ m. S. of the church, incorporates an octagonal brick building, with a conical roof of slates and tiles, which probably originated in the second half of the 18th century as a gazebo. Three sides of the octagon retain windows with two-centred heads, each divided by a forked wooden mullion into two pointed lights and a lozenge-shaped tracery light; these windows appear to replace earlier openings with ogival heads. About 100 yds. to the N. is a garden, about 90 yds. square, enclosed in a clunch wall with a thatched capping; it is probably of the late 18th century.’

<2> National Record of the Historic Environment, 209641 (Digital archive). SDO14739.

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Feb 16 2023 6:54AM