Steps, Piers and Associated Cobbled Pavement Descending From Ladies Lodge to the Hercules Statue

A flight of nine steps descends towards the Hercules monument from the main village lane immediately opposite the Statue of Buddha. At the top of the steps are tall rendered piers with stone ball finials and short sections of turned balustrade terminating in squat inner piers; the latter are surmounted by stone urns. At the bottom of the flight a decorative random-cobbled pavement descends the rest of the way, joined from the SE by a similar pavement descending from the arch between Ladies Lodge and the Round House. Half-way down the pavement, close to the Gothick Pavilion, and on the opposite side of the path, is a large stone sculpture of a recumbant lion on a stone plinth with dedicatory cartouche.