Heritage & Preservation
Hatfield Park boasts a Grade I listed landscape, important collections, and an exceptional built heritage.
HERITAGE
Our approach
Heritage and preservation are approached with care and consideration across the Estate.
Care & development
Our work includes the care and development of the historic parkland, the preservation of documents and items of local, national, and international significance, and support for the conservation and repair of historic buildings.
Our approach also reflects ongoing work across the Estate to care for the landscape, collections, and wider historic environment.
A HISTORIC LANDSCAPE
Shaped over
centuries
Hatfield Park includes a Grade I listed landscape and is recognised as one of England’s most significant parkland settings.
Ongoing work across the Estate supports the care, restoration, and upkeep of historic parkland features, including orchards and avenues.
BUILDINGS AND COLLECTIONS
Conservation
& repair
Hatfield Park’s Archives & Collections department preserves documents and items of local, national, and international significance, supporting cataloguing and preservation across the Estate.
We also support the conservation and repair of the Estate’s historic buildings including Hatfield House and the Old Palace, and the wider historic environment, including work relating to historic brick masonry, boundary walls, and a seventeenth-century flint wall within the Registered Park and Garden.
Heritage & preservation FAQs
Ongoing work across the Estate supports the care, restoration, and upkeep of historic parkland features, including orchards and avenues.
Responsibility is shared across the Estate, including the Archives & Collections team and those caring for the landscape, historic buildings, and wider historic environment.
Historic buildings at Hatfield Park are preserved through ongoing conservation and repair work, including historic brick masonry repair, flint wall repairs, and like-for-like restoration using traditional materials such as lime mortar.