Jarvis Brook, Walled Garden To West Of Rotherfield Hall Including Terrace, Retaining Walls, Walls, Steps, Arcade, Summerhouse And 2 Gazebos

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.