Walls and wrought-iron gates to the Ravenscourt Park walled garden

Walls and gates to a walled garden, built in around the early or mid-C18, modified in the late C19.

MATERIALS: red and brown brick walls, and wrought-iron gates.

DESCRIPTION: a set of elaborate ornamental wrought-iron gates with scroll detailing, along with an overthrow and side panels, is located in the south side of the walled garden and is flanked by tall brick piers.

There are red and brown brick walls on three sides of the garden. The south wall runs between the gateway and the west end of White Lodge (listed Grade II). The east wall, which runs along Paddenswick Road, is attached to the north end of the lodge and there is a later segmental-headed entranceway which leads into the lodge’s private garden. A wall runs the whole length of the north side. The walls on the west side and the western half of the south side have been removed and replaced by hedging. The internal faces of the walls are supported by straight brick buttresses. There have been piecemeal brick repairs and repointing.