Garden Walls And Garden House

The garden walls and garden house at Woodhall Park, dating from around 1780, are part of the kitchen garden wall associated with the Woodhall Park Estate. They were laid out by William Malcolm, a royal nurseryman, for Sir Thomas Rumbold. The walls are constructed of plum stock brick in Flemish bond, featuring stone dressings and iron gates. The garden is a large rectangle measuring approximately 200 meters by 125 meters, with internal walls dividing it into four separate areas, two of which are smaller and located to the northeast. The walls rise to a height of about 4 to 6 meters and have plain brick coping, with corner piers and ramped sections leading to openings on all sides. The piers are stone blocked and capped, topped with ball finials to the northwest. There are wrought iron gates to the west, dated 1910, which display the arms of the Smith family, as well as a small subsidiary opening with a gauged brick segmental head to the southeast. The internal walls feature openings with stone capped piers.

The garden house, which is an early 19th and 20th-century former gardener's cottage, is built into the northern end of the northwest elevation. It is made of red brick and has a slate roof, comprising three bays and two storeys, with a basement and attic. The central bay projects slightly and has a 20th-century double flight of steps leading up to a central six-panelled door with a semi-circular fanlight set in a round-headed gauged brick reveal. Flanking this are recessed glazing bar sashes with gauged brick flat arched heads. The outer bays in the basement contain two light segmental headed casements. On the first floor, there are three 3-pane sash windows. The building features a cornice to the pediment with an oval opening, and the returning bay has a ground floor 12-pane sash and a first floor 6-pane sash. A cross axial ridge stack is present, and a bay was added to the rear in the 20th century. This walled garden was noted for its special interest by J.C. Loudon, and it is where Joseph Paxton trained as an apprentice stove house grower.