Frame Yard

The Frame Yard is a rectangular walled compound that includes part of the original potting sheds and boiler house. The compound features high rubble stone walls to the west, which are shared with the kitchen garden, and to the south. The eastern wall is lower and faces the current house and garden, while the northern wall is high and made of brick. The main entrance is located at the southern end, facing the driveway, and is marked by square-section piers topped with flat copings. Between these piers are wood panelled double gates, which have open panels at the top with twisted iron bars. At the southeast corner leading into the garden is a cast iron gate adorned with fleur de lys finials. In the center of the eastern wall, there are double cast iron gates that also lead into the formal garden. To the north, a planked door provides access to the back of the formal garden, which served as the gardener’s entrance. The western wall includes several planked doors leading into the kitchen garden.

Internally, the western wall is partly rendered and heavily overgrown, indicating where the glasshouses were situated. The surviving potting sheds and boiler house are located against the southern end of the eastern wall. They consist of two adjoining single-storey ranges, one lower than the other, built of snecked masonry with quoins and covered by slate roofs. The higher southern range features seven windows and has two masonry stacks at the ridge and eaves, the latter possibly connected to the boiler. To the left at ground level, there is a round-arched recess with voussoirs set within a masonry panel. Generally, the windows are two-light casement multi-paned types that rise to the eaves, along with a fixed multi-pane window and a 20th-century window located immediately to the right of the recess. There is also a door, likely from the 20th century, in the northern gable end accessed through the lower range. The lower range has two wide open bays and an infilled unit to the north that contains a 20th-century casement window. Additionally, there is a 20th-century window in the northern gable end. These ranges have been converted for use as accommodation and storage.