Rotherfield Hall 
THE YEW-ENCLOSED GARDEN ROTHERFIELD HALL 
ends of the house by the arcading with 
which the rose garden is enclosed. At the 
south end is a covered seat, and at the 
north the terrace, cutting somewhat into 
the rising ground, ends in a circular recess of 
pleached hornbeam with an umbrella yew 
and a seat in the center. 
The rose garden, walled in solidly on its 
eastern side, has a large opening in its end 
wall which frames a view of a farmhouse on a 
distant hill-top. The pavilions which guard 
the flower garden are open on the sides that 
face the house, and their lower floors, which 
give upon the bowling-green below, suggest 
homes for a tame fox or other pet, as fancy 
pleases. These pavilions, as indeed all the 
buildings, are faced with native stone which 
has been quarried on the estate and is of a 
fine color, running from cream to strong 
ferruginous browns and yellows, and it has 
been worked so as to obtain the very best 
results from variety of texture and tooling, 
an objective of immense value where a coarse 
grained stone has to be used. The descent 
from the flower garden to the bowling-green 
is covered by a turfed slope with steps on 
each side flanking the pavilions. Raised 
paths continue on from these steps and the 
scheme is completed at its west end by a 
green terrace raised upon a high retaining 
wall abutting upon the park. From this 
elevation an extensive view is obtained. On 
the exposed side of the bowling-green, and 
serving as a fine foil of foliage, is an old 
quarry which, with a natural timber growth 
lending itself easilv to arrangement round 
a pool in the center, gives yet another in¬ 
terest to a layout of which every detail has 
been conceived in a scholarlv spirit but at 
the same time with a very proper regard to 
the circumstances and limitations of the 
subject. 
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