1 Westfield House garden, Westfield House, Rugby.
Villa with paddock park, ha-ha, pleasure grounds, walks and large conservatory.
House demoliished c. 1930 and site redeveloped. Lovie reports that, at time of survey ...
Villa with paddock park and pleasure grounds. House demolished c 1930.
12 Whitelaw House garden, 4 Hillmorton Road, Rugby.
First house to be built as a Rugby School boaring house. Villa pleasure grounds with walks, lawns, shrubberies, formal garden, mixed planting, geometric ...
Villa pleasure grounds, lawns, shrubberies, formal garden, kitchen garden. Some planting surviving at time of survey.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie.
1 Arnold villas (4), Rugby.
S. facing small town garden with wide range of exotic/tender plants, small pool/grotto laid out to give impression of greatr area.
Small town garden, exotic plants, small pool.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie.
12 Brookfield House, Barby Road, Rugby.
House incorporated into Hospital of St. Cross 1910.
Villa with formal terraces leading to pool with island, coniferous planting near house, 25″ OS 1887 shows elaborate ...
Villa with formal terraces, pool, plantings near house, lawns, parterrebeds and other garden features.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List of surviving planting and other features.
1 2 Brownsover Hall park/garden, Brownsover Hall, Brownsover, Rugby.
Near river Swift and boardered by old arm of the Oxford canal,with bridge. Park to N and W of house with clumps ...
Park to N and W of house with clumps and boundary planting to N. Pleasure grounds around house, kitchen garden.
Recommended for inclusion in the Local List by Lovie.
1 2 Dr. Bloxam’s garden (Percival Guildhouse), Rugby.
Lovie reports that this site was once extensive with formal gardens, an orchard and large paddock. From 1840s the site was gradually broken ...
Originally a large site with pleasure grounds, orchard and paddock divided and partly developed from 1840s. A small remnant remains as garden to Duildhouse.
Recommended for inclusion on the Local List by Lovie.
1 2 Horton Crescent, Rugby.
Lovie reports an oval of grass where roads converge from the W and N. Grass enclosed by low holly hedge. Regular planting of lime around edge ...
Oval grass enclosed by low holly hedge and lime trees around edge of site. Designed urban space and setting for surrounding mid and late 19th century villas and houses.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie.
1 Recreation ground, Hillmorton Road, Rugby.
Opened 1874 and developed with park features in 1886 including a bandstand (survives), fountain and urns (not surviving).Ornamental planting to N, boundary walks to E ...
Rugby's first park opened 1874. Bandstand, War Memorial gates, boundary planting to E,W and N.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie.
1 Rokeby House garden, Barby Road, Rugby.
Lovie reports this as an early C20th house developed from Rokeby Farm with woodland garden, lawn, walks, orchard, kitchen garden. Gardens in present form ...
Early 20th century house with contemporary garden. Lawn, woodland, orchard, kitchen garden.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie
1 Rugby Lodge garden, Rugby Lodge, Rugby.
Lovie reports villa with pleasure grounds, walks, boundary planting. House demolished c 1900 for housing development and Caldecott Parkl.
Gardens, glass houses, paddocks with boundary planting.
1 2 Rugby Nursery, off Hilmorton Road.
Nursery run by George Batley, FRHS. Established in the late 1840s.
Lovie reports that the premises were located behind early 19th century houses on Hillmorton ...
Nursery run from c. 1850. Purchased by Rugby School for use as cricket field in 1885. 1887 Ordnance Survey shows site much reduced in size with just the northern section, cottage, greenhouses and some ornamental planting surviving.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie.
1 Rugby Rectory garden, Little Church Street, Rugby.
Lovie reports informal pleasure grounds with shrubbery, boundary planting, walks. Formal area near house, with glass.
At time of report (1996/7) Relate Headquarters, formerly ...
Informal pleasure grouns with shrubbery and boundary planting.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie.
1 Headmaster’s House garden, Rugby School, Rugby.
Villa-type pleasure grounds with walk, lawns, shrubbery, conservatory and terrace.
Lovie reports that it is a moderately well-preserved site with traces of walk and original ...
Villa-type pleasure grounds with walks. Old brick walls surround site.
Recommended for inclusion on Register/Local List by Lovie.
1 Head Master’s kitchen garden, Rugby School, Rugby.
Lovie reports a walled garden with regular geds, divided into N and S sections by serpentine fruit wall in 1850.
In 1909, N section ...
Originally a walled garden divided into N and S section by a fruit wall. N section developed in 1909 and building in S section c. 1970.
Recommended crinkle crankle wall and other early C19th brick garden walls for listed building status by Lovie.
1 Rugby School – The Close, Rugby.
Lovie reports this area, formerly the site of grange and manor house of Rugby, was developed as a pleasure ground/playing field c. 1810 – ...
Open area developed as pleasure ground/playing field for Rugby School c. 1810 - 1815.
Recommended for inclusion on Register/Local List by Lovie.
1 Rugby villa group, Bilton Road, Rugby.
Lovie reports villas with pleasure grounds survive at time of his survey (1996/7) but with reduced grounds.
Oakfield House converted to offices at time ...
Four villas with pleasure grounds: Bridport House, Woodville House, Oakfield and Tower Lodge.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie.
1 Rugby villa group, Newbold Road, Rugby.
Lovie lists: The Lawn; Northcote House; Osborne House; Irton Cragg; The Elms.
He states that only The Lawn survives as part of the District Council ...
Six villas listed. All originally with pleasure grounds, shrubberies, walks. Only The Lawn survives with a few remnants of the garden.
1 Southfield House garden, Horton crescent, Rugby.
Lovie reports pleasure grounds with formal area of coniferous planting to E. Large range of glass/conservatory. At time of this survey (1996/7) some good ...
Pleasure grounds; formal area of coniferous planting. Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie.
1 Springhill House garden, Barby Road, Rugby.
Lovie reports pleasure grounds with pool, kitchen garden to E of house, drive, terraces, paddocks/park to S/SE.
House demolished c. 1970. At time of survey ...
Pleasure grounds with terraces and pond. House demolished c. 1970.
12 St. Marie’s Churchyard, Dunchurch Road, Rugby.
Lovie reports that the churchyard was planted at the time of the construction of the church. Simple grid plan around church with some planting ...
Simple grid plan around church. Some original planting surviving.
Recommended for inclusion on Local List by Lovie.
Recommended Listed Building Status for church yard cross by Lovie.
1 Thornfield, Barby Road, Rugby.
Pleasure grounds with lawns and mixed planting. Paddock park with clumps.
Lovie reports that house demolised with part of stable surviving at time of this survey (1996/7). ...
Pleasure grounds with lawns and mixed planting. House demolished. Some planting remains.
1 Victoria Nursery, Lower Hillmorton Road, Rugby.
Nursery garden with regular plan and mixed planting.
Lovie reports that site developed c. 1900.
Nursery garden.
1 Sestertius of Antoninus Pius. The coin is now in the possession of the child who found it having been brought in as an enquiry by a teacher.
Findspot - a single Roman coin was found in the area of Norman Road, Rugby.
1 A watching brief was carried out during soil stripping in advance of the construction of a new crematorium at Hillmorton, Rugby. A single significant feature was identified, thought very ...
A Middle Iron Age roundhouse was excavated at Rugby and Daventry Crematorium site in 2012. The roundhouse forms part of a growing corpus of similarly constructed features known from the region and represents further evidence for prehistoric land-use outside the major river valleys.