The Walled Garden C160 Metres North-West Of The Stables At Newnham Paddox

The Walled Garden, located approximately 160 meters northwest of the stables at Newnham Paddox, is a walled garden enclosure built between 1770 and 1772. It is possibly associated with the landscape designer Lancelot "Capability" Brown. The structure is made of red brick laid in English garden wall bond, topped with stone copings. The garden is roughly octagonal in shape, featuring a circular central dipping pool, which is currently dry, and rectangular slip gardens on three sides. The walls of the enclosure vary in height from about 12 feet to 20 feet and include stone copings.

The design allows for maximum sun exposure, with longer walls on the diagonal sides. The northern faces of the northeast and northwest walls contain heating flues, and there is a section of higher wall at the northern apex where a lean-to glass house was once built. Access to the garden is provided by an arched pedestrian entrance on the southeast side and a cart entrance on the northwest.

Adjacent to the northwest wall are two two-storey cottages. The southern cottage faces inward toward the garden and features a gabled ground floor porch, flanked by 3-light casement windows on both the ground and first floors, complete with hood moulds. The other cottage, to the left, is a later addition that faces outward from the garden and has cambered heads on its casement windows with random fenestration. The large enclosed garden, situated within a registered landscape, showcases an interesting and unusual layout designed to optimize sunlight. The largely intact walls of the garden contribute to its significance as a group with the stable court.