It is H-shaped in plan, with its principal entrance on the north front and is built in red brick with a stone cornice and a hipped, slate roof. Archaeologia Cantiana 84, (1969), pp 211-29 The wooded slopes of the North Downs lie beyond the site to the south. In 1591 he gained a licence to import 200 tons of Caen stone (see porch of north wing) but work stopped for 60 years due to the 11th Lord Cobham being implicated in the plot to put Lady Arabella Stuart on the throne. It is a stunning venue, the guided tour is excellent, full of interesting history on the Hall, the Darnley family and the surrounding area. The drive, which formerly entered from Halfpence Lane at Shepherds Gate Lodge (now gone) before the link road construction, follows a gentle curve south-eastwards, on a line established in 1818 by the Reptons (Laurie 1984), to arrive at the forecourt on the north front of the house. On the north side of the hill, at the south end of Brewer's Pond and the Fountain Pond (450m north of the bastion) are the remaining brick walls of Samuel Lapidge's (c 1740-1806) 1789 Engine House (listed grade II) which was given decorative lancet windows by Wyatt in 1804. The Repton pleasure grounds and the 60 hectare estate are still in poor condition, despite efforts by the Cobham Hall Heritage Trust. Immediately west of the Hall are loose clumps of trees of mixed ages from which the south-west lime avenue extends 300m to Cobham village.
On inheriting Cobham in 1747, the third Earl Darnley began altering and refurbishing the house, work which was continued from the 1780s for the fourth Earl by the architect, James Wyatt.
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system. The south, garden front opens onto a 50m deep, west to east terrace which is laid to gravelled walks and lawns and bisected by a north to south axial walk with a central stone fountain basin. With an adjacent area of former glasshouses to the west, the garden was used for nursery purposes in the early to mid C20.REFERENCESH Repton, Fragments on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening (1816) [in Loudon 1840] Cobham, Kent, England, DA12 3BL. A C20 lodge stands halfway along its route. This is now in a wooded area of the park still owned by the Darnley family. Between 1767 and 1770, the addition of a third storey to the central block and interior decoration was undertaken by George Shakespear although payments were also made to the architect Sir William Chambers (CL 1983; Laurie 1984). Meetings of the Trustees take place three times a year. The South Lawn, first planted with shrubberies by Repton in 1792-3 (ibid) contained, by 1882, huge beds of rhododendrons interspersed with evergreen trees and shrubs (The Garden). During the summer of that year he produced one of his famous Red Books on Cobham Hall.
Formal terraces lie to the immediate north and south of the Hall while the pleasure grounds extend southwards, north-eastwards, and northwards over Windmill Hill.The south, garden front opens onto a 50m deep, west to east terrace which is laid to gravelled walks and lawns and bisected by a north to south axial walk with a central stone fountain basin. The Trust also protects historical artefacts belonging to Cobham Hall.
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