Listed Building record MDR25055 - Pair of Garden Walls Flanking Top Terrace, Melbourne Hall Gardens, Church Close, Melbourne

Pair of garden walls flanking top terrace,Melbourne Hall Gardens, Church Close, Melbourne, built c1704. From the National Heritage List for England: 'SK 38/3925 PARISH OF MELBOURNE CHURCH CLOSE 6/65 (East Side) Pair of Garden Walls Flanking Top Terrace of Melbourne Hall Gardens GV II* Pair of garden walls. c1704 with later C18 additions. Erected as part of a French style garden designed by Royal Gardeners to Queen Anne, London and Wise, for Thomas Coke of Melbourne Hall. Work carried out by William Cooke of Walcot. Red brick with stone dressings and deep brick plinth with chamfered copings. Each wall is approximately 15ft high and stretches the length of the upper terrace. To the east end of each is a pilaster strip on moulded stone base, set above the plinth. Both walls have flat stone copings with moulded sides and beyond the pilasters to east, both have a later C18 extension with a segmental arch through. Included in the Derbyshire Historic Gardens Register at Grade I. See item 6/63 for sources. Listing NGR: SK3903724947.' (1)