Garden Walls To Gardens East And North Of The Grange

SU 8347 SE 1/2A 1099

CASTLE HILL (West Side) Garden walls to gardens east and north of The Grange)

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The garden consists of a series of formal enclosures probably in their original form. The most notable are the main walled enclosure to the east and a subsidiary enclosure to the north. An C18 wall of brick with brick capping surrounds on all sides the main enclosure to the east of the house. The wall across the east end of this is punctuated in the centre by square panelled brick gate piers with moulded stone caps and by a rich wrought iron gate of early C18 date which is of bar and scroll pattern with pyramid scroll overthrow in the centre. This gateway is flanked to either side by 2 bays of blank brickwork and then to either side by a smaller round headed opening with early C18 wrought iron grille. The side grilles and central gateway afford vistas of Farnham Park across the road. There is another gateway with wrought iron gate and overthrow in the north wall of this enclosure, and a gateway, with gate missing, in the corresponding bay in the south wall. A further gateway, with gate, is found in the west wall, to the south of the house. In the west well, to the right hand of the house, a gateway [gate missing but flanked by brick gate piers] leads into the subsidiary enclosure to the north. In the west wall of this enclosure, there are recesses at either end, the left hand one containing a small wrought iron grille.

Listing NGR: SU8359447408