Walled Garden to N of Herstmonceux Castle England, UK

Listed Building Description

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HERSTMONCEUX HERSTMONCEUX PARK TQ 61 SW

13/660 Walled garden to north of Herstmonceux Castle

GV II

Garden walls. Probably mid C16 and later altered. Red brick mostly in English bond, with some C20 patching; ashlar. Rectangular garden enclosed by walls approx. 3 metres high, ramping up to 4 metres high at north end where garden is raised. Some sections of wall show different phases of building, the east wall having central lower section of header-bond brickwork with English-bond brickwork above. Quadrant- sectioned coping with top course of headers and ball finials at points where wall ramps. Near south end of west and east walls each has a square-sectioned pier, the east wall ramping down, with stone coping, to die into castle, the west wall stepping down. Both these walls have 2 round-arched doorways (south-eastern doorway elliptically-arched), Raised garden south retaining wall is approx. 2 metres high with saddle-back stone coping and central flight of C20 stone steps with stone piers and console-bracketed balustrade. North wall has offset brick buttressess along north side, and central C20 bowed alcove with ashlar colonnade at front and French windows in bow.

A survey of 1570 records a walled arbour and orchard to the north of the castle (D. Calvert, The History of Herstmonceux Castle, p12).

Listing NGR: TQ6466210551