Ousden Hall
Beside the church, Ousden Hall was demolished in 1955, the site now in the gardens of Ousden House, a remodelling of the old stables. Originally built for the Moseley family in the sixteenth century, the moated house was enlarged and remodelled in the mid-eighteenth century. The Moseley’s house stood in a park with a possible sixteenth century surviving viewing mound in woodland south of the site. Avenues extended out from the park but had gone by 1816 when the parkland expanded to become a landscape park. William Emes, the landscape designer, may have had a hand in the park’s layout. An eighteenth century dovecote and nineteenth century cottage ornée style entrance lodge survive, although its drive has gone. One arm of the moat survives that became a canal around the middle of the eighteenth century including an embankment with walkway flanked by a yew hedge. A mid-nineteenth century clock tower from the old house survives. An eighteenth century walled garden lies beside the church, now in separate ownership and mainly laid to grass. Since the 1970s the pleasure grounds of Ousden House have developed into a series of garden rooms with the clock tower a focal point for a crinkle-crankle yew alley, herbaceous borders designed by Arabella Lennox Boyd, a moat garden, woodland and ornamental lake.
Not open to the public
