Old Kitchen Garden Walls, Port Eliot

The old kitchen garden walls at Port Eliot date from the 18th century and enclose the kitchen garden. Constructed of red brick, the walls feature alternating courses of headers and stretchers, with intermittent triple courses of stretchers. The walls have a roughly rectangular shape and include internal dividing walls that create four sections. Standing about 4 metres high, the walls are topped with a cornice and slate coping, and have pilasters placed at regular intervals both inside and outside. There are segmental-headed doorways in the outer walls and in the dividing walls. On the north side, there is a 19th-century doorway with a four-centred arched head. Lean-to greenhouses for vines and peaches are located along the inside of the north wall. The layout of the internal walls is designed so that there are two south-facing walls in the kitchen garden.