West Garden Walls And Steps To Broadoak Manor

HERTFORD

TL3013NW BROADOAK END 817-1/5/295 West garden walls and steps to Broadoak Manor

GV II

Walls and steps to formal west garden of Broadoak Manor (qv). c1923-4. Red brick, Flemish bond, York stone copings, steps. Garden design influenced by contemporary Lutyens/Jekyll work, with a central patte d'oie aligned on the west front of the house, with beds framed in York stone and grass walks. Enclosing walls linked to north-west corner of house, and have brick rusticated piers, openings with rusticated quoins, rubbed brick and tile flat and arched openings, tile-creased bands, corbel bands and canted brick caps. Steps have York stone treads and brick risers, brick dwarf walls with semicircular niches flanking lowest flights. The steps lead to an upper lawn, beyond the terraces, and through the wall to the north-west, via an arched opening formerly gated. The garden structures form an important element of the setting of Broadoak Manor (qv).

Listing NGR: TL3070813810