Walls to sunken garden approximately 130 metres south west of Balls Park Mansion

Walls to sunken garden approximately 130 metres south west of Balls Park Mansion, Balls Park

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269022
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: Walls to sunken garden approximately 130 metres south west of Balls Park Mansion
Statutory Address:: Walls to sunken garden approximately 130 metres south west of Balls Park Mansion, Balls Park

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1269022
Date first listed:: 09-Sep-1996
List Entry Name:: Walls to sunken garden approximately 130 metres south west of Balls Park Mansion
Statutory Address 1:: Walls to sunken garden approximately 130 metres south west of Balls Park Mansion, Balls Park

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:: Walls to sunken garden approximately 130 metres south west of Balls Park Mansion, Balls Park

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

County:: Hertfordshire
District:: East Hertfordshire (District Authority)
Parish:: Hertford
National Grid Reference:: TL3347711829

Details

TL3311NW 817-1/9/266

HERTFORD BALLS PARK Walls to sunken garden approximately 130 metres south west of Balls Park Mansion

GV II Walls to sunken garden. c1910. Two levels of red brick retaining walls with York stone caps. Axial arrangement influenced by Gertrude Jekyll, with steps in the centre of each side, and a circular centre bed, formerly a pool. Perimeter of garden has curved benches formed of stacked tile-creasing with Portland stone seats; smaller bench of similar construction outside garden adjoining north gates has Portland stone tablet inscribed 'Ben's Garden'. Pair of wrought-iron scrollwork gates, possibly reset, at north entrance; south entrance has single dwarf gate in coursed rubble piers.

HISTORICAL NOTE: the sunken garden was constructed after Balls Park had been acquired by Sir George Faudel Phillips in 1901. His eldest son, Benjamin undertook restoration and embellishment of the gardens. He succeeded to the property and title in 1922, but died in 1927, and the seat was installed in his memory by his younger brother, Lionel.

Listing NGR: TL3347711829

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Legacy System number:: 461226
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Page, F M, History of Hertford, (1993), 171-172
'Country Life' in Country Life, (1912), 578-587

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