V THE COURTS, TERRACES, WALKS 109 



ruins, dating from the middle of the sixteenth 

 century, at Place House, near Tenterden, in 

 Kent. The garden, which is all walled in, 

 measures 47 paces wide by 92 long. It is 

 now a grass field. At the end of the garden 

 opposite to the house is a raised walk with 

 brick retaining wall on the garden side, and 

 a wall 8.0 high on the outer side of the walk. 

 The walk is 16 feet wide, 5.0 high above 

 the garden level, and 41 paces long. It is 

 reached by a flight of nine steps in the centre 

 from the garden. At each end of the walk 

 are octagonal garden-houses in two storeys, 

 the ground floor entered from the garden. On 

 six sides of the houses there are two light 

 windows with four-centred heads. The ground 

 floor is paved with bricks ; the first floor has a 

 wood floor, and the walls are plastered. All 

 the details are in brick, with mouldings worked 

 in plaster to look like stone, and evidently date 

 from before the middle of the sixteenth century. 

 At Brickwall, in Sussex, there is a grass walk 9 

 feet wide and about 130 feet long, with seats at 

 either end, which separates the garden from the 

 park ; this is raised six steps above the garden. 

 At Rycott, in Oxfordshire, there existed a mag- 

 nificent raised walk along the top of a one-storey 

 building, surmounted by a balustrade. This 

 was reached by double flights of steps from the 

 garden, with an elaborate pavilion raised on the 

 terrace opposite the steps. Every vestige of 



