Jarvis Brook, Walled Garden to West of Rotherfield Hall Including Terrace, Retaining Walls, Walls, Steps, Arcade, Summerhouse and 2 Gazebos is a Grade II* listed building in the Wealden local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 May 1989. Garden. 2 related planning applications.
Jarvis Brook, Walled Garden to West of Rotherfield Hall Including Terrace, Retaining Walls, Walls, Steps, Arcade, Summerhouse and 2 Gazebos
- WRENN ID
- western-terrace-martin
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Wealden
- Constituency
- Sussex Weald MP: Ms Nusrat Ghani (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 May 1989
- Type
- Garden
- Address
- Jarvis Brook, Walled Garden to West of Rotherfield Hall Including Terrace, Retaining Walls, Walls, Steps, Arcade, Summerhouse and 2 Gazebos, Treblers Road, TN6 3RP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 542 289
- Coordinates
- 51.03929, 0.19905
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The walled garden, terrace, retaining walls, steps, arcade, summerhouse, and two gazebos at Jarvis Brook, located west of Rotherfield Hall, were designed in 1897 by Francis Inigo Thomas for Lindsay Lindsay-Hogg. The garden is constructed from rubblestone and ashlar with plain tile roofs. It features an irregular, terraced T-shape.
The upper terrace is bounded by a balustraded retaining wall with offset buttresses and symmetrical balusters and urns flanking central steps. A double flight of steps rises over an arched opening to a decorated landing, which then continues as a single shallow flight to the terrace. To the right of the upper terrace is an arcade of five rusticated round arches with a pitched stone coping, backed by a tall wall. An archway in the returning garden wall provides access to a courtyard, with a lean-to summerhouse attached. A gazebo, square in plan, is set into the garden wall to the front of the upper terrace.
The garden walls slope downwards, with two archways on each side, and a gazebo centrally placed. The front (western) wall also slopes down to a lower, balustraded section. The upper terrace is paved with rubblestone, with a former millstone set at the center. The paired gazebos each have steps leading to an archway with a console keystone, a flight of steps to a return side, a cross-window, and a segmental-arched doorway to a basement level with a cross-window. They are topped with a coved cornice, a pyramidal roof, and a dovecote cupola with a metal ball finial. The garden front wall has offset buttresses and pilasters on the west side, and circular niches on the east side. Central balustrading has been removed from the south end, leaving one remaining ball finial. This walled garden forms part of the setting for Rotherfield Hall, and the garden itself is of group value context and listed at the higher Grade II* level within the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Interest.
Local climate
Jarvis Brook, Walled Garden to West of Rotherfield Hall Including Terrace, Retaining Walls, Walls, Steps, Arcade, Summerhouse and 2 Gazebos receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 69% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 66% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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