
What is recorded here
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.
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--).
This does not grant access. Most recorded buildings are privately owned; view them only from public ground unless the owner allows entry.
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