Garden Retaining Wall With Doorway And Summerhouse Adjoining Pitchford Hall To South West

The garden retaining wall with a doorway and summerhouse, built in the 1870s or 1880s by George Devey, is located to the south-west of Pitchford Hall. It is constructed from coursed red sandstone rubble, with some parts snecked, and features sandstone ashlar dressings and stone coping. The structure is L-shaped, with a circular summerhouse in the south-west corner that connects back to Pitchford Hall on the north side. The wall is approximately 100 metres long and about 2.5 metres high, sloping down to around 1 metre at the eastern end. There is a doorway in the west wall that has chamfered reveals, a depressed arch, and a nail-studded boarded door with wrought iron strap hinges. A short retaining wall runs alongside the pathway to the west at this point. The summerhouse has low stone walls, an open front with three bays supported by square-section wooden columns, and a central entrance. It is topped with a conical stone slate roof featuring a lead globe finial. Together, the wall and summerhouse play a significant role in the setting of Pitchford Hall by enclosing the large lawn to the south.