sentences:  One of the best sources for the house and gardens' appearance at that time is Rocque's map, printed in "Environs of London".About 275 yards to the mansion's west was a large octagonal ornamental lake called the "Basin", due south of what is now the golf course club-house, built of brick and weather-boarded timber, a remnant of the 18th-century stable-court.The mansion also had a front lawn to its west, part of which now forms a cricket ground.