Walled Garden With Pavillion, Ashley House

This is an early 19th-century walled garden, with elements dating back to the earlier 19th century. It is located at Ashley House and contains a square tower pavilion at its eastern end and a small battlemented bastion at the western end. The garden's northwest wall incorporates an earlier 19th-century battlemented infill.

The walled garden itself is roughly rectangular, measuring approximately 50 by 70 metres. It’s divided into two sections: a larger flower and orchard garden to the east, separated from a smaller bedding and fruit garden to the west by a central wall. The garden walls curve at the northeast and southeast corners. An entrance is provided by a doorway with ashlar margins in the northeast, curving wall. The dividing wall is constructed of whinstone with ashlar dressings, featuring round-headed archways at its northern and southern ends. The dividing wall rises to the height of the north wall beyond the northern archway. The western wall is constructed of rubble with harl pointing. A doorway is present at the north end of the western wall, flanked by a console pediment with a star finial and weathered capitals (these are freestanding and likely repurposed from an earlier gate or doorway). The garden contains two statues: one classical figure and one decorative urn.

A greenhouse and storage shed are situated at the centre of the western garden, aligned east to west. The arrangement is lean-to; a rubble storage shed is on the north side, and a greenhouse with a whinstone base sits on the south side. The skew of the storage shed is topped with ashlar coping and a ball finial.

The pavilion, located at the eastern end of the garden, is a square, two-stage, Tudor-style tower with battlements. It features a string course and hoodmoulds. The construction uses stugged, squared, and snecked sandstone with droved ashlar dressings; the reveals are chamfered, and a base course is present. The east elevation has a four-panelled door at ground level on the right, beneath a hoodmould. A round-headed window, also with a hoodmould and lying-pane glazing, is located to the left. A curved wall and steps lead to a basement at the outer left of the ground level. The second stage features a blind pointed arch window with a stone Y-tracery mullion at its centre. The south (garden) elevation has a tripartite window at ground level, and a round-headed tripartite window at the centre of the second stage, containing painted glass with figures and diamond patterns. The north elevation is blank at ground level, and contains two symmetrically disposed round-headed windows at the second stage.

Attached to the west of the pavilion are single-storey storage sheds, spanning four bays. These are constructed of rubble with ashlar dressings, and have a battlemented parapet on a corbel course. The bays are arranged with a door, a window, and tall bipartite windows featuring stone mullions. A battlemented wall extends to the right, terminating in a small battlemented, square bastion with blind arrowslits.