Retaining Wall To The Raised Garden To The South West Of Endsleigh House is a Grade I listed building in the West Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 November 1985. A Circa 1810 Retaining wall.

Retaining Wall To The Raised Garden To The South West Of Endsleigh House

WRENN ID
nether-panel-thyme
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
West Devon
Country
England
Date first listed
7 November 1985
Type
Retaining wall
Source
Historic England listing

Description

SX 37 NE MILTON ABBOT ENDSLEIGH

9/216 Retaining wall to the raised garden - to the south west of Endsleigh House

GV I

Retaining wall to the raised garden between the principal block of Endsleigh House (qv) and the childrens' cottage. Circa 1810 and possibly designed by Humphry Repton for the 6th Duke of Bedford. Stone rubble with oversailing capping containing a channel for a small artificial stream. The wall is curved and forms part of the crescent-shaped plan of the picturesque Cottage Ornee designed by Sir Jeffry Wyatville. On the south side the wall has an arched recess containing a grotesque head. The raised garden was formerly planted with which may have derived from Repton's study of Oriental gardens in connection with his designs for the Royal Pavilion (Hussey). The parterre and central fountain was a very early revival of a formal garden and is illustrated in the Red Book (1814). Christopher Hussey, Country Life, CXXX, 246; CXXX, 296.

Listing NGR: SX3907678597

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