EXAMPLES OF GARDEN DESIGN. 



country seat by the present owner, previous to laying out the grounds as shown on the 

 accompanying photographs. 



Wood Hall occupies the slope on the North side of the valley, and has therefore 

 a full Southern exposure. Formerly the house was of much more modest dimensions, 

 but, following the English tradition, each succeeding owner has enlarged and re-modelled, 

 until to-day Wood Hall is a fairly representative specimen of an English country home. 



The present owner had, with great taste and discretion, and under the supervision 

 of his Architect, the late Mr. Ferguson, of Carlisle, added a new entrance hall on the 

 South front, and the billiard-room shown in illustration No. 427. On the West, behind 

 the house and crowning the highest part of the grounds, are the old stables and farmery, 

 and behind the billiard-room sundry strips and plots of ground surrounded by walls at 



A Hillside 

 Garden. 



FIG. 431. THE APPROACH TO WOOD HALL, COCKERMOUTH. 



conflicting angles, rendering this view of the grounds and gardens very unsatisfactory, 

 and without any reasonable recompense in the shape of " cropping " ground. 



No alterations have been made to the total area or outer boundaries. The long strip 

 forming the kept garden is almost equally divided into an upper and lower garden by 

 the drive, which enters the enclosure by a lodge entrance about one hundred feet West 

 of the area shown on the plan. The gardens, the levels of which may be judged by the 

 two sections (111. No. 427), stands almost in the centre of a beautifully undulated and 

 well-wooded park. Partly by accident and partly by definite planning, the trees 

 immediately round the gardens give great support to it, and not only secure that 

 dominant note of continuity which only well-grown timber can give, and which is typical 

 of the English domain, but, by their positions in relation to the principal view points 

 in the garden, and also from the windows of the house, add enormously to the value 

 of the vistas. 



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