This is a garden of three descending terraces. In front of the shelter at the west end is a garden of bedding, pergola and pillar roses. Below is an Italian garden with formal ponds on either side of a fine weeping ash tree; clipped yews emphasise the geometric design of lawn and paving. In the lowest garden, beds of seasonal flowers vie in spring with shrimp-pink Acers (Acer pseudoplatanus ‘Brilliantissimum').
Paths follow the sides of the garden where the banks are planted with drifts of herbaceous plants backed by flowering shrubs and sheltering trees of contrasting foliage colour. The garden is floodlit on summer evenings.
A worked-out clay pit, renewed with fresh earth, was the gift of Lord Radnor to Folkestone in 1926. Kingsnorth Gardens, named after a former tenant, were created with the traditional panache of ‘Floral Folkestone' and continue to uphold that reputation.