Gardens, old and new; the country house & its garden environment (1900)
Leyland, John, 1857?-1924, ed, Tipping, H. Avray (Henry Avray), 1855-1933, ed, Country Life Limited · London, The Offices of "Country life illustrated": George Newnes, Ltd., New York : Charles Scribner's Sons · leaf 131
there. The land has been levelled, and on the north side the lawn is raised, with a slope to the ditch and a brick wall at its margin. The character of the gardens will be best gathered from the pictures. There is great structural completeness about the setting of the house, from the gates and… … is a most notable garden-house, or octagon of brick,approached by a steep flight of steps, and entered by an Ionic porch It has twolevels, and the house is high,the windows being intendedto give a wide view overthe landscape. Each side issurmounted by a gable, andeach gable and interspace bya brick…
Gardens
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