Walled Garden at South Ormsby Hall

C18 walled garden.

MATERIALS: handmade red brick laid in English garden wall bond.

PLAN: the walled garden is situated to the west of South Ormsby Hall. It has a large rectangular bottle-neck plan and high walls on the north, west and south sides. The east side is formed by a short length of wall at the north end (partially collapsed) and the south end, and in the centre by the rear wall of outbuildings in the stable courtyard. This latter wall is therefore not part of the listing.

EXTERIOR: the walls have flat brick coping surmounted by pantiles and there is a door on each side. The south wall has a round arch doorway of brick headers and a recessed wooden door with Y-tracery in the upper half, flanked by shallow buttresses. There was a similar doorway opposite in the north wall but it was knocked though by a vehicle during the Second World War and was rebuilt as a large square opening with double-leaf wooden doors. At the northern end of the east wall there is a wooden door of vertical planks with long strap hinges under a square arch of brick headers. The doorway in the west wall has a segmental brick arch and a slatted wooden plank and batten door.

There is a low opening with a timber lintel at the north end of the west wall to allow the stream to pass through. To the south of this, on the outside of the wall, a small brick lean-to shed with a pantile-clad roof was added, probably in the late C19/ early C20. The lean-to shed built into the south-west corner has a vertical plank door on the west side, and its roof has collapsed.

On the outside of the north wall, at the east end, is a Victorian red brick lean-to which has a pantile-clad roof and a wooden vertical plank door on the east and north sides. Adjoining this are lean-to sheds with four large openings and central brick piers. The C20 lean-to constructed of brick and corrugated iron at the west end of the north wall is not included in the listing.