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Remains of a 17th to 19th century designed landscape around Leith Hall (NJ52NW0004). A map of 1758 shows a formal entrance and gardens around the house but a 1797 Estate Map shows that by the late 18th century any formal gardens around the house had been removed and replaced by the more open parkland that remains. There are walled gardens to the north of the hall (NJ52NW0131) with offices (NJ52NW0132). To the south-east of the house are two ponds created for boating, fishing and duck shooting, and an ice house. Historic Landscape survey carried out 2006-7 on the existing and former lands of Leith Hall. Geophysical survey in 2006 north of the hall recorded a number of anomalies in the north lawn but nothing that could be identified as traces of the formal gardens. In 2007 trial trenching was undertaken on a site to the south-west of the hall where two stones had been exposed by grass cutting. Excavation revealed stone foundations of a rectangular building, its interior divided into two rooms. A roughly circular stone-lined cistern lay within the south-east corner with two drains running through the walls. The building is likely to be the south of two pavilions shown on the 1758 estate map. A watching brief was carried out by MAS in November 2016 during test pitting and subsequent water main works along the west edge of the lawn area and digging of a new drain east of the stables. No evidence attributable to the formal gardens shown on the 1758 map was observed.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)