Garden Causeway At Copt Hall And Attached Ha Ha And Terrace Wall To West Of Copt Hall (In The Parish Of Epping Upland)

The garden causeway at Copt Hall, built around 1895 by C. E. Kempe for Edward James Wythes, is a notable structure made of brick with a facing of squared and coursed limestone and ashlar coping. It extends approximately 60 meters in an east-west direction and features a rusticated through-arch along with the remains of stone steps that lead down to sunken parterres located to the north and south of the causeway. At its eastern end, the causeway connects to the center of a terrace wall that borders the eastern sides of the parterres and extends to meet garden pavilions at both the north and south ends. The west end of the causeway has a semi-circular projection that is part of the ha-ha wall, which extends about 40 meters to the south and forms an L shape extending approximately 70 meters to the northwest. Originally, the causeway included balustrading, obelisks, and statuary, and it was part of a formal garden designed in the Edwardian Baroque style, as advocated by Reginald Blomfield in his 1892 book "The Formal Garden in England."