JARVIS BROOK, WALLED GARDEN TO WEST OF ROTHERFIELD HALL INCLUDING TERRACE, RETAINING WALLS, WALLS, STEPS, ARCADE, SUMMERHOUSE AND 2 GAZEBOS

JARVIS BROOK, WALLED GARDEN TO WEST OF ROTHERFIELD HALL INCLUDING TERRACE, RETAINING WALLS, WALLS, STEPS, ARCADE, SUMMERHOUSE AND 2 GAZEBOS, TREBLERS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1252660
Date first listed:: 22-May-1989
List Entry Name:: JARVIS BROOK, WALLED GARDEN TO WEST OF ROTHERFIELD HALL INCLUDING TERRACE, RETAINING WALLS, WALLS, STEPS, ARCADE, SUMMERHOUSE AND 2 GAZEBOS
Statutory Address:: JARVIS BROOK, WALLED GARDEN TO WEST OF ROTHERFIELD HALL INCLUDING TERRACE, RETAINING WALLS, WALLS, STEPS, ARCADE, SUMMERHOUSE AND 2 GAZEBOS, TREBLERS ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1252660
Date first listed:: 22-May-1989
List Entry Name:: JARVIS BROOK, WALLED GARDEN TO WEST OF ROTHERFIELD HALL INCLUDING TERRACE, RETAINING WALLS, WALLS, STEPS, ARCADE, SUMMERHOUSE AND 2 GAZEBOS
Statutory Address 1:: JARVIS BROOK, WALLED GARDEN TO WEST OF ROTHERFIELD HALL INCLUDING TERRACE, RETAINING WALLS, WALLS, STEPS, ARCADE, SUMMERHOUSE AND 2 GAZEBOS, TREBLERS ROAD

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: JARVIS BROOK, WALLED GARDEN TO WEST OF ROTHERFIELD HALL INCLUDING TERRACE, RETAINING WALLS, WALLS, STEPS, ARCADE, SUMMERHOUSE AND 2 GAZEBOS, TREBLERS ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: East Sussex
District:: Wealden (District Authority)
Parish:: Rotherfield
National Grid Reference:: TQ 54267 28960

Details

In the entry for;

TQ 52 NW ROTHERFIELD TREBLERS ROAD (east side , off)

20/257C Jarvis Brook, walled garden to west of Rotherfield Hall, including terrace, retaining walls, walls, steps, arcade, summerhouse & 2 gazebos

GV II

the grade shall be amended to II* (star)

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TQ 52 NW ROTHERFIELD TREBLERS ROAD (east side, off)

20/257C Jarvis Brook, Walled garden to west of Rotherfield Hall including terrace, retaining walls, walls, steps, arcade, summer- house and 2 gazebos

GV II

Terraced walled garden with arcade and gazebos. 1897 by Francis Inigo Thomas for Lindsay Lindsay-Hogg. Rubblestone and ashlar; plain tile roofs. Terraced irregular T-shaped garden comprising:- balustraded retaining wall to upper terrace with central steps; at right end of upper terrace an arcade, a tall wall to rear of this, and, in the returning garden wall, an archway and a lean-to summerhouse; in front of upper terrace, garden side walls ramp down, each having 2 archways and, at centre, a gazebo (square on plan) with dovecote; the front (western) wall of garden ramps down to central, lower, balustraded section. Upper terrace: rubblestone paving with former millstone set at centre; the retaining wall is of rubblestone with offset buttresses rising as dies and balustrade with turned, symmetrical balusters and urns flanking the central steps; the steps are a double flight, rising over an arched opening with stands for 2 urn finials 8removed) and a decoratively-paved landing, which meet to rise as a single shallow flight up to the terrace; the arcade at right end of terrace is of 5 rusticated round arches with pitched stone coping; the archway in the returning garden wall (on right) has steps down to courtyard and the summerhouse a distyle in antis colonnade; at the left end of the upper terrace is a rusti- cated archway with decorative iron double gate and flanking niches. The garden walls: have pitched and moulded coping; the arches are rusticated, the lower (western) arches with hoodmoulds. Each of the paired gazebos has: on each side, steps up to archway with console keystone to archvolt, flight of steps beside return side and cross-window, and to west side a segmental-arched doorway to basement level and a cross-window; coved cornice; pyramidal roof with dovecote cupola and metal ball-on-cushion finial. Garden front wall: west side has off- set buttresses and pilasters; on east side a circular niche to either end; central balustrading removed from south end; one remaining ball finial. Part of the garden setting for Rotherfield Hall (qv), the garden being listed Grade II* in the Register of Historic Parks and Gardens of Special Interest. Country Life, Vol 26, (August 14th 1909), pp 228-236. Architectural Review, Vol 34 (1913), pp 19-20.

Listing NGR: TQ5426728960

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Sources

Books and journals
'Architectural Review' in Architectural Review, , Vol. 34, (1913), 19-20
'Country Life' in 14 August, (1909), 228-236
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 14 East Sussex,

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.