Kitchen Garden Walls, Towers, Summerhouses, Gate Piers, Gates, Lodge And Stables

Kitchen garden walls, corner towers, gateways, a lodge, summerhouses, and stables dating to circa 1895-7 were constructed for A.H. Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers as part of the remodelling of Rushmore Park. The park was redesigned from circa 1880, intended as a series of parks and pleasure grounds for the education and recreation of local people.

The walls are built of red brick in English bond, with Flemish bond used for the lodge and header bond for the towers. Stone dressings are present throughout. The roofs are tiled, with conical roofs on the towers and gabled ends with ornate, pierced bargeboards and a brick axial stack on the lodge.

The kitchen garden is enclosed by tall, buttressed brick walls with terracotta coping. Three cylindrical corner towers feature conical roofs, datestones, internal doorways, and external ventilation slits. One corner has an observation turret, although its superstructure is missing. Gateways on the north and south sides have tall brick piers with stone bands, caps, and ball finials, along with iron gates.

The lodge on the north side is a one-story and attic structure with two wooden oriels on the ground floor, a doorway between them, and a verandah with iron posts and a glass canopy. The building also has two half-dormers with ornate bargeboards. A summerhouse on the north side is designed to resemble a temple, featuring an Ionic stone colonnade of four columns in antis with an entablature displaying a strapwork frieze. Behind the wall lies a lead dome with a cupola. The interior contains niches, a colonnade, and a coffered dome. A second summerhouse, on the west side, has pairs of Ionic columns to its portico, with flanking niches. A detached stable range is located immediately north, with plank doors and windows on the south front and timber-framed end gables featuring ornate pierced bargeboards with finials and pendants. Pitt-Rivers was an anthropologist and archaeologist, and a pioneer in archaeological techniques.