Building record 15915/2 - Rose Garden Wall and Pavilions at Radbroke Hall

<1> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 1335826 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Garden wall and pavilions. c.1910. By Sir Percy Worthington for Charles Hardy. Uncoursed rubble with ashlar dressings. Straight wall of c.10' height with concave recession to centre and projecting pavilions at either end. Both pavilions have stone flag floors, these flags cut in a circular pattern to their centre.

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<2> de Figueiredo P & Treuherz J, 1988, Cheshire Country Houses, p.152 (Book). SCH785.

Like most Arts and Crafts Architects, Worthington was much concerned with the relationship between a house and its garden. At Radbroke he laid out terraces, a sunken garden, a summerhouse linked to the Hall by High stone walls, and a bicycle shed disguised as a Dovecote.

<3> Cheshire Gardens Trust, 2011 onwards, Research and Recording Report (Report). SCH6655.

Garden pavilions at either end of the paved walk are linked to the boundary by curved walls with ashlar stone piers. At the west end the curved wall accommodates a curved oak door (34, 35 & 36). The design of the pavilions, with their steep roofs, overhanging eaves, niches and glazed oak doors, is very arts and crafts, redolent of designs by Thomas Mawson and others.