The Italian Garden Including Walls And Features

The Italian Garden, including walls and features, is a house and walled garden built in the early 20th century for Thomas Leyland. The garden wall is made of roughly-dressed stone arranged in English Garden Wall Bond, while the brick west wall is lined in snecked stone. The house and arbour are constructed from ashlar with a Lakeland slate roof, featuring wrought-iron gates.

The large square garden has tall Rococo style double gates located in the south-east corner. In the north-east corner, there is a small panelled doorway flanked by four wooden panels with naturalistic open-work carving. An arbour is positioned against the centre of the east wall, supported by four Roman Doric columns.

The house is set against the north wall and is a single storey with three bays, featuring a moulded plinth and rusticated quoins. The centre bay, which is pedimented and was originally an open temple front, has two Roman Doric columns in antis and a triglyph frieze. Flanking the centre bay are round-headed windows with radiating glazing bars, and the roof is hipped with keyed Venetian windows on the returns.

The west wall of the garden includes a large segmental apse with six round-headed niches that are separated by broad flat pilasters. The house has a small Lakeland slate roof above it.

Inside the house, there are two naturalistic plaster ceilings adorned with vines growing through trellises, along with contemporary doors and wood panelling.