Walls and Steps retaining Croquet Terrace, with Enclosing Walls and Arches N and S of Lily Terrace

The structure is a long terrace retaining wall made of rubble, approximately 4.5 meters high, featuring a central semi-octagonal fountain basin and stepped access at both the north and south ends. The fountain includes a segmentally-arched niche and has a recessed plaque above it that reads: 'These terrace gardens were designed by Henry Duncan McLaren, 1905'. On either side of the fountain, the terrace wall is supported by five large, stepped buttresses, which divide the wall into a large central bay and five flanking bays. The two outer bays have a low, coped wall head, while the remaining bays are topped with a plain wooden balustrade. The steps are arranged in an L-shape, consisting of three flights with 12, 12, and 5 steps respectively, and feature stone-coped parapets along with single round-arched niches on their sides. Stone-coped, rubble walls extend westward at a height of about 1.5 meters from the steps, enclosing the Lily Pond on both the north and south sides. In the centers of these walls are round-headed arches with stepped, coped parapets that rise to ball finials.