Walled garden, gate piers and attached gardeners' stores to the south of Bloxholm Hall

Walled Garden, Gate Piers and Attached Gardeners' Stores to the South of Bloxholm Hall

This is an early 19th-century walled garden with gate piers and attached gardeners' stores. The walls and outbuildings are constructed of brick with stone dressings and some areas of stucco render. The gates are wrought iron.

The principal southern entrance to Bloxholm Hall is located on the south elevation of the main walled garden, which features a curved north wall to follow the former bowling green beyond. A separate walled kitchen garden is located to the west and is open at its south end. Lean-to gardeners' stores are situated on the north elevation of the north walls of this kitchen garden.

The walls are tall and constructed in brick in a variety of bonds, topped with moulded stone copings. The principal gates on the south elevation have tall brick piers with stone surround and moulded coping stone. The west elevation of the west pier retains surviving scrolling stone ornamentation. Some sections of the piers contain 20th-century brick infill and 20th-century iron gates. The west-east section of walls runs for approximately 95 metres before turning north to continue for a further 90 metres.

The north wall is curved to accommodate a former bowling green to the north. Further gates are located at the centre of this wall, continuing to Bloxholm Hall to the north, and match those on the garden's entrance with stone surround and scrolling details to the piers. A further gate is located at the north-west corner of this garden, with the walls sweeping up to meet ashlar stone piers with a moulded cornice and square coping stone. Further to the north, piers for the former orangery contained within the perimeter wall are brick covered with stucco render. Facing these gates, leading to the walled kitchen garden, is a further stone pier, with any corresponding gate now lost.

The walled kitchen garden has entrances on its north, west and east walls, each with a timber boarded door and moulded stone architrave. The walls have regularly spaced shallow brick buttresses. The location of a former glasshouse is visible on the north wall where the walls rise in height to accommodate the building. A brick chimney within the wall indicates that the glasshouse was heated.

On the north side of the wall are a series of former stores and a former boiler house. At the east end of the wall are two attached lean-to buildings, the easternmost understood to have formerly contained a boiler. Both of these buildings have been rebuilt and altered in the early 21st century and are not included in the listing. To the west, on the north side of the glasshouse, is a further lean-to store building which has a tiled timber roof structure supported by curved brick piers. Between the outbuildings, roughly at the centre of the wall, are the remains of a further small brick lean-to building with brick drop arch, now infilled. The building has no roof but has a further, partially infilled opening on its west elevation.