Walls, Gate Piers, Gates And Bothy In Old Garden

Walls, gate piers, gates and garden bothy at Newburgh Park, Newburgh

This group of structures comprises the walls, gates and a garden bothy, probably dating to the early 18th century and built for the 4th Viscount Fauconberg.

The garden walls form an L-shaped enclosure with an inner enclosure in the angle between the bothy and Garden Cottage. The walls are constructed in brick and sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings. The wall running west from the road along the north of the garden for approximately 75 metres features a round-arched gateway in the north corner with ashlar projecting quoins. From the northern end of the bothy, a wall runs west to Garden Cottage forming the north side of the inner enclosure; on its south side is a wooden canopy for a peach curtain. Another wall runs west from the southern end of the bothy to Garden Cottage, forming the south side of the inner enclosure and containing a doorway to Garden Cottage matching that in the left return of the bothy. The south wall runs from south of Garden Cottage for approximately 75 metres back to the road, with intermediate pilaster buttresses and paired gates with Gothick intersecting bars positioned halfway along.

The east wall is of rubble construction at low level forming a ha-ha, surmounted by a yew hedge. The wall sweeps up at the northern end with wrought-iron railings having obelisk finials and bell-shaped capitals to standards. In the north-eastern corner is a pier with pulvinated base and banding. At the centre of the east wall is a gateway with paired gates having square bars and intermediate lower bars with inverted-V finials. The gate piers have square bases of five bands, pulvinated on all sides, with plain capitals and bow-shaped capstones.

The bothy is a two-storey structure with a brick and pantile construction. The east elevation displays three bays with the central bay projecting slightly. The central bay contains studded board leaved doors below a fanlight in an ashlar architrave with imposts and tripartite keystone. Above is a blind Diocletian window with painted glazing bars in an architrave with tripartite keystone. The outer bays contain eight-pane sash windows in keyed architraves. The building features a moulded eaves band and a hipped roof with interlocking tiles to the front and pantiles to the rear. Brick stacks stand on either side of the central bay. The left return has a leaved round-arched part-glazed door in an architrave with imposts and tripartite keystone on the ground floor.

Internally, the ground floor room to the right functioned as an apple store, with apple trees trained into hedges framing the path from the gateway to the bothy. A wooden staircase on Tuscan columns provided access to the first floor, which contained garden lads' accommodation. In the inner enclosure between the bothy and Garden Cottage were heated greenhouses, now demolished. This garden appears to predate the Dog Kennel Garden at the same location.