Rock gardens and cliff stairs about 30 metres south of sunshelter

A pathway and imitation rockery landscaping leading from Winterstoke Gardens to Winterstoke Undercliff, built in 1936 to the designs of Alec Adlington and Pulham and Sons.

DESCRIPTION: chalk cliff face, with inbuilt slatted wooden seats. The central walkway follows a lengthy, dogleg pattern, with Pulhamite forming a rockery setting with textured rockwork surfaces imitating geological strata and irregular planting troughs to both sides. Alcoves for fixed wooden benches are placed at intervals along the route and some are approached by steps.

The construction entirely covers the cliff face and is blended with the natural chalk by irregular edges at either end. The sloping walkway with regularly-spaced, short flights of steps, leads up from the eastern side and then doubles back at the halfway point to rise to the Winterstoke Gardens. The walkway surface is scored in imitation of irregular, crazy paving. At the top there is a generous platform which projects out from the cliff to form the approach to the slope. Alcoves are let into the surface of the cliff along the path and accommodate fixed seats, and rockwork also forms a natural balustrade to allow views on the south side facing the sea.