Kitchen Garden Walls And Gateway, Tool House, Apple House And Gardener'S House And Cottage

These kitchen garden walls, gateway, tool house, apple house, and gardener’s house and cottage date from around 1810, with alterations made around 1840 and minor 20th-century changes. The walls are constructed from squared and coursed limestone rubble, with slate and yellow brick detailing, and cast iron elements.

The kitchen garden is rectangular, featuring a central gateway flanked by a gardener’s house and bothey at each corner, with two stores projecting from the garden walls. The central gateway has square piers topped with cornices and decorative orbs. The cast iron gates have a rising central section, strapwork ornamentation including shells and the initials MIC, pendant foliate swags, roundels with finials, and circles and spiked detailing along the top rail. Cast iron openwork lattice screens, incorporating Greek lozenges and flourishes, are set between square piers which have cornices, linking the gate piers.

The two-storey, three-bay bothey has a central planked door, a two-light glazing bar casement to the left, and a two-light mullioned casement with an ashlar surround to the right, with further casements and a keyed oculus above. A moulded cornice tops the garden front, finished with ball angle finials. The slightly larger gardener’s house is similar, sharing single planked doors in rusticated surrounds featuring a sheaf of corn, the Cholmeley family crest, and a further keyed oculus.

The two stores are square in plan, with facades broken into facets and constructed in yellow brick with ashlar dressings. They have single planked doors, single keyed oculi, and oval keyed oculi dormers in the roofs. Originally, the roofs were covered with fish-scale tiles and lead dressings. The side walls have ashlar copings, partially cornices and partially gabled. A small, semi-circular headed gateway with an unusual rounded rusticated surround is situated at the lower north corner, featuring a cast iron gate with a latticed base, scrolled top, and the Cholmeley cypher.

These structures were built as part of the formal gardens of Easton Hall, the seat of the Cholmeley family.