Garden Walls With Piers And Attached Barn About 25 Metres South Of Wick Manor

The garden walls with piers and attached barn, located about 25 metres south of Wick Manor, date from the late 18th century, while the barn has origins from the late 17th or early 18th century. The barn was altered in the late 18th or early 19th century to resemble a ruined chapel, with further modifications in the 20th century for use as an office.

The walls are constructed from coursed limestone freestone, featuring stone dressings and piers. The barn is made of coursed freestone combined with mixed pennant and limestone rubble, and it has slag block long and short quoins on the southwest side. The roof is pantiled with stepped stonework under the verges, and there is a double Roman tiled lean-to at the rear.

The walls enclose a rectangular garden measuring about 30 metres from east to west and about 50 metres from north to south, with the barn attached at the northwest corner. In the southern section, the wall slopes down to a square pier approximately 2 metres high, which has a cornice and an urn on top. Two piers are connected by a low ha-ha wall that is about half a metre high and 15 metres long. The east and west sections of the wall are about 3 metres high. In the west section, there is a door with an ogee head and rusticated jambs, along with a niche above it. The east section continues as the north section, which ramps down to a similar pier topped with a 20th-century urn.

At the northwest corner, the wall is attached to the south elevation of the barn. The gable end on the left has raised coped verges, while the gable-ended curtain wall on the right features a central ogee-headed door with a large niche above, surrounded by a moulded frame. On either side of the door are three-light pointed arched windows with Perpendicular tracery; the left window has 20th-century stained glass, and the right window has two outer lights blocked in ashlar. There is a small single light at ground floor left, a small niche at the apex, and a cross finial to the right. The right return of the barn shows courses of freestone and a remaining timber wall-plate, while the left return has a door on the left in a chamfered stone surround, a two-light 20th-century casement above in a 19th-century opening with a segmental head, and a 20th-century three-light casement to the ground floor right, with a 12-pane light above.