Garden Walls With Gates And Garden House

FORCETT AND CARKIN FORCETT PARK NZ 1612-1712 10/47 Garden walls with gates and Garden House

GV II

Walls to kitchen garden and gates, and attached house. Late C18 walls and gates, early C19 house. Brick, rubble, ashlar, render and wrought iron. Walled garden: brick-lined rubble wall, which has been raised in height to west and north-west, with ashlar coping, forming a quadrangle. Initials in darker bricks set into brickwork at various places. Board doors in centre of east side and to north. Cart openings to north and south. Segmental- arched openings with wrought-iron gates, centrally to south and west walls, the former with ashlar opening and scrolled gate, the latter with ashlar keyed architrave and decorative gate. On north side, bothies on outer side, including living accommodation attached to pavilion-like garden building (latterly called Garden Cottage when occupied by the Gardener). Garden building: single-storey 5-bay building projecting forward into garden: ashlar with rendered panels; Westmorland slate hipped roof. First, third and fifth bays blind and rendered; in second and fourth bays a 24-pane sash window. Parapet. Rear chimney. Left return: door of 6 fielded panels. Interior of garden building: cornice with ribbed and cable-twist motifs. In the centre of the garden, a sundial (qv).

Listing NGR: NZ1737512417