Garden Walls

The garden walls at Woodhall Park, laid out around 1780 by William Malcolm, a Royal Nurseryman, for T. Rumbold, are part of the Watton-at-Stone Civil Parish. These walls enclose a kitchen garden and are constructed from plum stock brick in Flemish bond, featuring stone dressings and iron gates. The large rectangular area measures approximately 200 meters by 125 meters and is divided internally into four separate sections, with two smaller areas to the northeast. The walls stand between 4 meters and 6 meters high, topped with plain brick coping and corner piers. The walls slope down to openings on all sides, with stone-blocked and capped piers and ball finials to the northwest. The wrought iron gates to the west are dated 1910 and display the arms of the Smith family. There is also a small subsidiary opening with a gauged brick segmental head to the southeast. The internal walls have openings with stone-capped piers.

Beehive Cottage, a 19th-century former gardener's cottage, is built into the northeast wall at the eastern end. It is made of red brick with a tiled roof, consisting of three bays and two storeys. The cottage features two-light small pane recessed casements, an internal stack on the right end, and an external stack on the left end. The entrance is located in a one-storey outshut on the left end, and at the rear, there are casement windows with red brick above an earlier stock brick wall. This walled garden was noted for its special interest by J.C. Loudon and is where J. Paxton trained as an apprentice stove house grower.