Garden Walls And Gateway With Fig-House Attached

The garden walls and gateway with an attached fig-house are from the mid-18th century, with the gateway dated 1894 and transferred from Shipbourne in 1937. The walls and gateway are made of brick, featuring ashlar dressings and coping, while the right return is constructed from rubble. The brick, ashlar, and glass fig-house is located to the left of the central gateway. The serpentine front wall is approximately 230 meters long, with the central gateway and fig-house positioned to the left. The walls extend about 60 meters to the rear, except for the right return, which adjoins the former hunting stables, and the rear wall serves the central and right garden. The walls stand about 3 meters high and have flat stone coping, interrupted by a central Jacobean-style gateway that features a ball-finialled shaped gable. The gable displays a coat of arms, the initials EVB, and the date 1894. The fig-house to the left of the gateway has stone-coped walls that support a 19th-century greenhouse roof. There are round-headed stone arches at the right end of the front wall and in the inner walls near the front, as well as segmental-headed stone arches near the front of the returns.