C19 formal garden, 1.2ha, with adjacent parkland, 8ha. House early C16, many times altered, extended andreduced, 1628, 1730s, c.1740, c.1800, 1870s. Formal Courtyard garden laid out c.1875. Box parterre of geometrical and symmetrical design with sundial in centre. Herbaceous border, rose beds, original paths and yews. To east of Hall, semi-formal garden established 1972-73 , bounded to north and east by brick wall of 1628, facing park to south. Yew hedges interplanted with box and beech. informal shrub border. Variety of established specimen deciduous trees in park. Site of Special Scientific Interest to rear of Hall where tulipa sylvestris and ornithogalum nutans grow wild. (2)
See M872 for Holme Pierrepont Hall.

<1> Notts Historic Gardens Trust, 1995-1997, Notts Historic Parks and Gardens Files (Unpublished document). SNT4553.

<2> English Heritage, 1985, Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England - part 33, Notts (Published document). SNT4554.

<3> Pevsner N, 1979, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire 2nd ed. (Monograph). SNT4.

<4> Anthony J, 1979, The Gardens of Britain (Monograph). SNT418.

<5> Binney M and Hills A, 1979, Elysian Gardens, p 53 (Published document). SNT4557.