Survey Data
Reg No
12402210
Rating
Regional
Categories of Special Interest
Architectural
Original Use
Walled garden
Date
1730 - 1839
Coordinates
244015, 148342
Date Recorded
10/11/2004
Date Updated
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Description
Walled garden, extant 1839, on a polygonal plan with part ivy-covered coursed rubble limestone boundary wall to perimeter having overgrown coping. Now disused. Set in grounds originally shared with Desart Court.
Appraisal
A walled garden surviving as an interesting relic of the Desart Court estate following the destruction (1923) and subsequent demolition (1957) of the eponymous country house (1733) described (1837) as 'a large and elegant [mansion] of hewn stone in a demesne of more than 400 plantation acres contain[ing] some remarkably fine oak timber' (Lewis 1837 II, 16; cf. 124022--).