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Fuller information:
Clockhouse Gardens is a small public park occupying the site of the former gardens and stables of New Place, which was built by Sir James Esdaile in 1775 on the site of an earlier C18th house. New Place itself was first mentioned in c.1475 and the name still survives in New Place Gardens, a road that runs adjacent to the remains of the former estate. For much of its history New Place was an appendage of the Gaynes Estate with the lords of that manor often living here. By the mid C17th successful Londoners were buying country retreats in Upminster and in 1700 New Place had been acquired by a draper. Some 70 years later Sir James Esdaile, Lord Mayor of London in 1777-1778, inherited the estate through his second wife. He amalgamated New Place and Gaynes and ‘undertook a programme of building, renovation and landscaping which transformed Upminster'. (VCH Essex vii, p.146). In 1856 New Place was described by T L Wilson as follows: ‘on the south of the house is a spacious garden, somewhat in olden style, but not deficient in taste. Some portion of a moat, shaded by trees and stocked with fish, partly surrounds a mound. Here are cedars again, and a fine conservatory, and forcing houses.’Sources consulted:
Victoria County History of Essex vii pp143, 145-147, 151; Hornchurch UDC: Report on Parks and Recreation Grounds, Sydney Porter, September 1961Grid ref: | TQ563865 |
Size in hectares: | 1.3 |
On EH National Register : | No |
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Site on EH Heritage at Risk list: | |
Registered common or village green on Commons Registration Act 1965: |
No |
Protected under London Squares Preservation Act 1931: |
No |
The information below is taken from the relevant Local Authority's planning legislation, which was correct at the time of research but may have been amended in the interim. Please check with the Local Authority for latest planning information. | |
On Local List: | Yes |
In Conservation Area: | No |
Conservation Area name: | |
Tree Preservation Order: | Not known |
Nature Conservation Area: | Yes - Local Importance |
Green Belt: | No |
Metropolitan Open Land: | No |
Special Policy Area: | No |
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