Garden Features At Warren House

The garden features at Warren House include a garden wall, grotto, attached garden seats, and a fountain, dating from the late 19th century, likely designed by George Devey, who also designed the house itself between 1884 and 1886. The structures are made of red brick with stone and stone dressings, and the grotto is constructed from manmade stone, possibly Pulhamite. The red brick wall, which houses the grotto, has a swept profile that decreases in height and ends in a low brick pier with stone coping. There is a seat built on restored footings, and the wall extends as a low parapet wall leading to the terrace, finishing with a stone balustrade that flanks the steps down to the lower garden. Piers on the wall support urns, and there is a stone seat set on a curve, with terracotta panels depicting putti integrated into the brickwork behind. At the lower level, a stone fountain is set into the back of the retaining wall, featuring a bowl with a grotesque gargoyle on a moulded stone bracket, which pours water into a restored lower semicircular basin.