Garden Wall To Front Of Munstead Orchard And To Heath Lane House And Quadrangle

The garden wall to the front of Munstead Orchard and to Heath Lane House and Quadrangle was built in the late 19th century for Gertrude Jekyll. Constructed from Bargate rubblestone, part of the wall features tile coping. In front of Munstead Orchard, the wall is low with domed, oversailing coping and is interrupted by a gateway with a wooden gate. It rises to approximately 2 meters in height at the left end before returning to the house. To the southeast, the wall is taller, also about 2 meters high, with ridged tile coping and raking buttresses; the garden side has a battered base. The section of the wall by Heath Lane House was densely overgrown at the time of inspection and had partially collapsed in one area. This taller roadside wall originally formed part of Gertrude Jekyll's garden at Munstead Wood, which is listed as Grade I in the Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.