Se Garden Terrace At Moor Close, Including Steps, Walls, Pools, Colonnades And Gazebos

The garden terrace at Moor Close, built in 1911 by Oliver Hill, is part of a larger garden and features multiple levels, steps, walls, pools, colonnades, and two gazebos on the south-east side. The materials used include red brick, clay tiles and tile slips, pebbles, and York stone.

The terrace includes a former rectangular lily pool with a stone-panelled fountain on a brick base at its center, which has semicircular ends. On the north-east side, there are stone columns on pedestals atop a brick retaining wall. Originally, there were five columns, but only three remain, with their heads missing and featuring moulded bases. The south-west side has a six-bay brick retaining wall with a central opening that leads to five shallow stone steps. An Italianate stone balustrade was originally on top of this wall, but only the boxes remain today. Tall brick pillars with moulded stone caps stand at each end.

A central flight of five shallow stone steps leads to a grassed terrace surrounded by stone paving. At the north-west end, a further flight of seven steps leads to a bridge. This area is enclosed by brick screen walls with openings on either side that are dressed with stone. At a higher level on the south-west side of the grassed terrace, two identical gazebos are linked by a colonnade of four columns, which have moulded heads and bases along with large wooden lintels. The gazebos are constructed of brick and stone, topped with old tile pyramidal roofs. Each gazebo has a square plan, stone rusticated quoins with moulded bases, a moulded stone architrave and cornice, a semicircular niche at the rear with stone pilasters and a semicircular head, a rectangular opening with a stone architrave and sill facing the terrace, and two wider openings facing each other in stone surrounds with semicircular moulded pediments. The colonnade is approached by two sweeping semicircular flights, each consisting of 15 moulded stone steps. The garden was noted to be semi-derelict when surveyed.