Hope Castle

Walled garden, part of demesne, erected c.1799 when associated Blayney Castle built. Flemish-bond brick wall approximately 3.6m tall to most of east and south sides, with some remains of flat sandstone coping flags but mostly uncapped wall tops or view obscured by vegetation. Derelict former stable block forms south-east corner of garden. Lower rubble stone section of wall to north end of east side with curved corner leading to north wall which is brick-faced to interior, and coursed rubble stone walling to exterior. Large gap to north wall to accommodate later twentieth-century galvanised gates to County Council depot now located in part of former orchard. Section to west end of north wall has additional corner to bring fully rubble stone wall out to abut gable end of south gate lodge to demesne. Some overgrown apple trees survive to north-east sloped orchard which is mostly covered in grass with wide gravel paths.

Most of the boundary wall to this garden has survived intact so that the original enclosed area is still quite clearly defined. Several associated structures and former covered sections have been removed since the Ordnance Survey recording of the area in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but enough remains to enable an understanding of the early nineteenth-century formal gardens here which would have been an important element within the overall architectural composition associated with the country house.