Walls, Steps, Gateway, Pond And Pergola To Italianate Garden, Number 41 Witanhurst

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TQ2887SW HIGHGATE WEST HILL 798-1/5/1901 (West side (off)) 09/10/98 Walls, steps, gateway, pond & pergola to Italianate Garden, No.41 Witanhurst

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Italianate garden comprising walls, retaining walls, steps, gateway with gates, sunken pond and pergola. c1913 probably by Harold Peto as part of his garden design for Sir Arthur Crosfield. Brick with stone dressings, coping, columns and piers. Cast-iron gates. The garden comprises 3 linked compartments stepping downhill and bounded by stone-coped brick walls. Steps with stone-coped balustrades from a shaped wall lead to the first compartment which has a central pond with fountain (qv) and surrounding statues (qv). Similar steps lead into a central compartment. The third, most sunken compartment is approached through tall stone, panelled and corniced gate piers with cast-iron gate and decorative wrought-iron overthrow. Flanking the piers are substantial stone balustrades crowning a brick wall. Stone balustraded steps lead down into an apsed rectangular garden with stone-columned pergola which continues around the apse formed by a segmental shaped reflecting pond.

Listing NGR: TQ2803587115