The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HILDENBOROUGH NIZELS LANE (West Side) Walls, steps and statue 1/167 to the sunken garden south east of Nizels House.
The third paragraph of the description shall be amended to read "The retaining walls are coped with square section piers at intervals". The rest of the paragraph shall be deleted.
HILDENBOROUGH NIZELS LANE (west side) TQ 55 SW 1/167 Walls, steps and statue to - the sunken garden south east of Nizels House GV II
Walls, steps and a statue to the formal sunken garden at Nizels House. Early C20, probably associated with the drawing room addition to the house, at the south end. Rock-faced snecked standstone walls, bronze statue on stone plinth.
Plan: Approximately rectangular, the southern wall bowed out, with a flight of steps in the centre at the north end leading down into the garden, which is planted with roses. Pergola archways lead out of the garden at the south west and south east ends; statue in centre.
The retaining walls are coped with square section piers at intervals, each pier crowned by a finial in the form of a bowl of fruit. The statue in the centre, on a Portland stone plinth, depicts Bacchus.
One of 3 formal gardens round Nizels House and important to the setting of the building.
Listing NGR: TQ5467849570

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.