Kitchen Garden Walls And Gateway Immediately To The North Of Stratford Park

The kitchen garden walls and gateway, located immediately to the north of Stratford Park, date from the mid-18th century. The wrought iron gates at the center of the east side feature rococo scrolls on the overthrow and are flanked by later 18th-century capped ashlar piers. Stone steps and flanking walls lead up to the garden. The walls, which enclose the former kitchen garden, are stone-coped throughout. A mid-18th-century English bond brick wall extends from the gates to meet the northeast corner of Stratford Park. The north, west, and south walls are made of late 18th-century brick, contemporary with the conservatory, on the inner elevations, while the outer elevations consist of limestone rubble with pilaster buttresses and some later buttresses. The wall is also connected to the northwest corner of Stratford Park, where it incorporates remnants of a late 17th-century house that was demolished in the 1950s.