Garden Walls, Gazebo And Urn To North And North West Of Intwood Hall

The site includes garden walls, a gazebo, and an urn located to the north and northwest of Intwood Hall. The walls originally defined a rectangular garden dating back to the 16th century. They were shortened and restored around 1850 using brick. The north wall retains an embattled section from the 16th century, with a shorter matching section from the 19th century. A terrace fronts the walls, featuring a brick retaining wall likely from the 17th or 18th century, and a central stone urn. The urn’s frieze depicts vines with masks to the north and south, and birds pecking grapes to the east and west, with the birds’ outspread wings forming the urn’s lip.

The embattled west wall, also from the 16th century, has three interior recesses topped by 4-centered arches, with rear walls constructed using every third or fourth course of bricks laid on their edge. The bricks measure 24 x 11.5 x 4cm. A 19th-century gateway to the north terrace is flanked by piers surmounted by stone urns. A 16th-century brick archway, set within a short section of 19th-century wall, serves as a gateway to the south. This arch has a 4-centered shape with round shafts and a continuous wave moulding, all rendered in rubbed brick. The embattled south wall is constructed in a mid-19th century Flemish bond pattern. The garden originally extended further south.

A 19th-century doorway, designed in the 16th century style, is located on the right side (towards the east) of the wall. It is made of wood, with spandrels displaying the Gresham arms and the Mercers’ Company arms. The east wall is mainly from the 16th century. The gazebo, situated in the northeast angle, has an octagonal base of 16th-17th century brick, extended downwards to the exterior with angle pilasters. It has wood weatherboarding and an octagonal tiled roof. A wood door and doorway lead to the garden to the southwest, featuring carved spandrels. The interior of the gazebo features a bench on seven sides, wood panelling, plaster walls, and a dentil cornice, along with a trapdoor, possibly for a cockpit. The garden is reputed to have been used for cockfighting.

Garden walls attached at the northwest angle are dated from the 16th century to 1845 and are constructed from brick and flint. These walls enclose a rectangular garden. The south wall is embattled in brick with 16th-century brick externally and flint internally, with a central brick gateway dating to around 1845, featuring a plain semicircular arch, a brick keystone, and a stone lion couchant above; a low 19th-century cast iron gate is present. The west wall is primarily of 16th-century brick, ramped to the south, and has six tall recesses forming embrasures, some of which have been filled. The east wall has brick internally and a high flint base externally. The north wall is externally of 19th-century Flemish bond brick, with graffiti including "CHH 1845." The garden was enclosed around 1845, incorporating existing walling that had previously been used within farm buildings demolished around the same time. Intwood Hall itself is not included as a listed building.