Monument record 1404/4/3 - Walled Formal Garden North of the Old Hall

<1> Hartwell C, Hyde M, Hubbard E & Pevsner N, 2011, The Buildings of England: Cheshire (2011 revision), p.505 (Book). SCH7059.

'…On the north side of the moat is the seventeenth century walled garden, with an ornamental canal and two corner summerhouses of brick…'

<2> English Heritage, 2005, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest, 58292 (Digital Archive). SCH4666.

Garden walls: early-mid seventeenth century for Sir Thomas Stanley. English garden wall bond red-brick with weathered stone coping and stone quoins in the corner. The walls form a trapezium with the Alderley Mill Cottage and the Apple House in opposite corners, both former garden houses. The wall is c.2.50m high and has stepped square brick buttresses on the exterior and raking triangular buttresses on the inside. The circuit is complete but for extensions to the two garden houses and two added gates other than those with the fine stone piers listed separately. This was a large formal seventeenth century walled garden associated with the Old Hall.