Pair Of Garden Walls Flanking Top Terrace Of Melbourne Hall Gardens

This pair of garden walls, dating from around 1704 with later 18th-century additions, flank the top terrace of the Melbourne Hall Gardens. They were built as part of a French-style garden designed by the Royal Gardeners to Queen Anne, London and Wise, for Thomas Coke of Melbourne Hall. The construction was carried out by William Cooke of Walcot. The walls are made of red brick with stone dressings and feature a deep brick plinth with chamfered copings. Each wall stands approximately 15 feet high and extends the length of the upper terrace. At the east end of each wall, there is a pilaster strip on a moulded stone base above the plinth. Both walls have flat stone copings with moulded sides, and beyond the pilasters to the east, each wall has a later 18th-century extension that includes a segmental arch. The garden walls are included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at Grade I.