Walls Enclosing Melbourne Hall Gardens

SK 38/3925 PARISH OF MELBOURNE BLACKWELL LANE 6/45 (South Side) 18.2.71 Walls enclosing Melbourne Hall Gardens (formerly listed as 'stone rubble boundary walls to north, west and south-east of Melbourne Hall Grounds') GV II Garden walls with gates and attached dog graves. Early and late C18 with numerous late repairs. Erected as part of a French style garden designed by London and Wise, Royal Gardeners to Queen Anne, for Thomas Coke of Melbourne Hall. Stone rubble and red brick with stone dressings. Northern section of wall adjoining Blackwell Lane is of rubble stone with flat stone copings and to east end there are a pair of plain stone gate piers with pyramidal copings and ball finials, plus double plank gates. Eastern section of wall is of red brick with vitrified headers and is probably contemporary with the gardens. To south and west the walls change to rubble stone and south side has one blocked segment headed stone doorcase. In the south-east corner there is a dogs graveyard with small stone memorial plaques, dating from 1855 to the present day, inserted into the garden wall. Included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at Grade I. See item 6/63 for sources.

Listing NGR: SK3914325053