Walled Garden, Rosetta House

Circa 1807 for Thomas Young. Plain rectangular-plan walled garden with pedestrian and cart entrances; integral 2-storey, single bay garden building (now garden store) near SE angle. Coursed whinstone walls with flat tooled edge stone copes and buttressed retaining walls to SW and SE angles. Sandstone ashlar quoins around doorway.

N (ENTRANCE) ELEVATION: plain coursed whinstone rubble wall with flat stone copes following contour of hillside; squared entrance to left with tooled sandstone quoins and droved margins, decorative wrought-iron gate with fleur-de-lis detail to top rails and dog bars; ring handle and latch.

E ELEVATION: plain coursed whinstone rubble wall with flat stone copes following contour of hillside. To extreme left, 2-storey square

GARDEN STORE (TO LEFT OF E ELEVATION): 2-storey, single bay, garden store projecting from E wall. To E elevation, cruciform window to ground floor, upper of elevation concealed by holly tree; to left and right returns, central segmental-arched window close to eaves flanked by small blind oculi. W elevation within garden comprising: to ground floor, plain boarded timber door off centre right and central segmental-arched window close to eaves flanked by small blind oculi. Piended grey slate roof with lead flashings. Painted cast-iron rainwater goods, down pipe to left of E elevation.

S (PEND) ELEVATION: plain coursed whinstone rubble wall with flat stone copes following contour of hillside; segmental-arched pend off centre left with squared whinstone voussoirs. Adjacent to stream, plain buttress wall supporting SW angle, decorative pyramidal finial now missing. To SE angle (adjacent to stream) matching buttress wall with decorative pyramidal finial.

W ELEVATION: plain coursed whinstone rubble wall with flat stone copes following contour of hillside; carved stone head (of uncertain date and origin, possibly 17th or 18th century) built into wall for preservation.

INTERIOR: covered well near centre of green, surrounded by stone flags with later painted cast-iron pump; various stone troughs within garden boundary. To exterior of garden, later millstones lying near gardener's store: interior plain and in use as store.