Walls, Railings And Lean To Buildings To Rectangular Walled Garden

The walls, railings, and lean-to buildings surrounding a rectangular walled garden date from the mid to late 18th century, with a mid-19th century extension. They were constructed for Edwin Lascelles, the 1st Lord Harewood. The structures are made of orange-red brick in an English garden-wall bond, with some areas rendered where greenhouses once stood. There are hammer-dressed stone buildings with stone slate roofs, consisting of single-storey and two-storey buildings arranged in two parallel ranges to the north.

The northernmost building, located outside the garden, is a five-bay 19th-century single-storey structure next to a three-bay 18th-century block that was raised to two storeys in the 19th century. The 19th-century building features a central doorway flanked by small-pane Yorkshire sash windows. The 18th-century buildings have quoins, square ground-floor windows with small-pane Yorkshire sashes, and 19th-century windows above with lintels and sills. They have coped gables with kneelers and lean-to roofs.

Another building beyond has a stone doorway with tie-stone jambs leading into the walled garden, which is divided into two sections. A segmental brick archway leads to the main garden, which is enclosed on all four sides with doorways on the east and west sides, and intermediate projecting piers inside. The external walls feature regularly spaced buttresses and an angled south-east corner, all topped with stone ashlar coping.

The south wall includes an original arbour recessed into it, with piers flanking a basket-arch and stone impost blocks under an open stone pediment with moulded modillioned coping. The curved inner walls and semi-domed ceiling are covered by a tripartite stone slate roof, set on an ashlar raised floor. Two sculpted stone owls flank an original semicircular curved wooden bench, providing a fine view of the lake.

Attached to the south-west corner are iron railings measuring 8 metres long, featuring tall pointed spears that alternate with very short spear-headed railings. A single iron gate with a central scroll pattern ornament is topped with two ball finials.