At the back is a paved yard enclosed by short wings, and from here a stairway and tunnel lead under a narrow street into what was once a large and beautiful garden.

Though now sadly curtailed and overlooked, enough is left to show what it must have been like in former days.

Beside the main path is a tall and well-cut sundial of stone, with a weather-vane at the top pierced with the initials of Robert Cookes, and the date 1720.

At the end of the garden is a break in the wall, formerly railed across, and flanked on either side by tapering columns.

This was a favourite device for obtaining a long vista extending beyond the garden, and when it was constructed the view over the meadows and river to Clark's Hill must have formed a charming outlook.