The Walling Enclosing Patio On South Side Of Balsam House

The wall enclosing the patio on the south side of Balsam House is a garden wall dating from the 18th century. It is constructed of local stone rubble and ashlar. The wall extends from the southwest corner of Balsam House and is approximately 2 meters high and 5 meters long. It ends in a stone pier that measures about 350 millimeters square, featuring a plinth, a moulded cap, a step, and a ball finial, with two fielded panels on the south face only. There is a similar pier at the southwest corner of the southeast extension. Connecting these piers is a low cut and squared stone wall, which has an archway in the center made up of similar piers without finials, with the moulded caps linked by a matching semi-circular arch of similar detail. This work may have been done by Nathaniel Ireson, making it one of the few surviving examples of his work on the house from the mid-18th century.