A water, woodland and formal terraced garden, laid out in and around a surviving 16th century, or earlier, moat surrounding a 16th century Manor house: the gardens developed from the site of a compartmentalised, probably Tudor, layout, recorded as extant into the early 19th century, and from a subsequent early 20th century Italianate terrace garden. The manor has associations with nationally-important figures including, during the 16th century, Henry VIII, Sir Thomas Bulleyn (or Boleyn), Sir John Gresham and, in the early 20th century, Viscount Hudson