Walled garden at Wakefield Lodge

The walled garden, built in the 1860s, is located to the east of Dairy Farm in the eastern part of the park. It has a rectangular plan and extends to approximately four acres. The walls are constructed of red brick in English bond, topped with saddleback coping.

The garden features wide entrances on the north and south sides. The south entrance has a segmental brick arch, while the north entrance has been knocked through. The north wall includes four further openings: two vertical plank doors with gauged brick arches at each end, and two boarded-up doorways beneath wooden lintels in the eastern half. Inside the north wall, the brick plinth and metal frame of a former lean-to glasshouse remain; the frame is stamped ‘Beard’s Patent Bury St Edmund,’ likely referring to a glazing system patented by G. Beard and Son in 1879. Cast-iron brackets, designed to have supported glass casements and panes for fruit protection and possibly bird netting, are also visible at the east and west ends of the north fruit wall.

Outside the north wall are two long, lean-to ranges of bothies and sheds with tile-clad roofs and exposed rafter feet. These structures, which are now dilapidated and partly ruinous, were likely used as tool rooms, workshops, seed rooms, and storage areas. Surviving features include casement windows, window shutters, plank and batten doors, built-in cupboards, and a cast-iron fireplace. Features related to the heating of the fruit wall, including openings and brick chimney breasts for internal smoke flues, also remain, along with a brick vaulted mushroom house. The north-east corner of the walled garden was breached when the gardener's cottage, formerly situated there, was demolished in 2017.