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Beeks Cottages, Marshfield

Introduction

The site has terraced gardens belonging to Beeks Mansion, now used by the inhabitants of Beeks Cottages as a kitchen garden. The terrace on the south side below the cottages is disused and overgrown.

Features & Designations

Features

  • Pond
  • Description: Irregular triangular pond 25m long X 15m wide (greatest width). Oriented east-west with broad end to the east. Surrounding wall at distance of about 10m absent only at east end. No real need for this to be a field pond as a stream runs at the bottom of the field. It may be related to Beeks Mansion which lay to the north.
Key Information

Type

Terraced Garden

Purpose

Kitchen Garden

Survival

Extant

Civil Parish

Marshfield

References

Contributors

  • South Glos. Historic Environment Records Officer