Kitchen garden

MATERIALS: red brick garden walls, mostly in English Garden Wall bond, with some flint and stone. Gardener's buildings also brick with slate roofs. Glasshouse has brick dwarf walls and a timber framed superstructure.

PLAN: kitchen garden is an irregular hexagon in plan, with a cross-wall. Two garden buildings with an entrance gate between form the southern boundary of the garden.

DESCRIPTION: the kitchen garden walls stand to approximately 3.5m in height and are mostly red brick although there are patches where flint or stone work is employed. Both brick and stone coping stones are evident. The exterior is stone faced with brick quoins at its north-east corner presumably because of its inter-visibility with the coach house, stable yard and drive to the east. In the north wall is a stone gate-way with a Tudor-arched head and a decorative iron gate which allows access between the kitchen garden and the gardens immediately adjoining the main house. A short stretch of wall to the west of the gate is half the height of the remainder probably to allow uninterrupted views down slope from the house. There is a broadly central cross-wall supported by stepped buttresses on its south side. A pair of brick single-storey gardeners' buildings form the southern boundary of the garden. These have slate roofs which are hipped where they adjoin a shared arched gateway. They have simple wooden plank doors and timber-framed casements. The interiors were not inspected. The western of the two has an attached lean-to timber glass-house to its south supported on brick dwarf walls.