Grovelands Park

The registration was made on 1 October 1987 as list entry 1000395. About 1796 the Quaker brandy merchant Walker Gray bought roughly 230 acres and 'commissioned John Nash (1752-1835) to design a new house and Humphry Repton (1752-1818) to lay out the gardens and park'; Repton formed the lake with a bridge and a fishing temple. Grovelands House is listed at Grade I as 'Grovelands Park Hospital (original block only)', NHLE 1078925, on 31 January 1974; the list entry dates it '1797 by John Nash' and describes interiors including a 'Small drawing room, of octagonal shape with pointed roof, painted to resemble a bird cage, with garden scenes between the wires.' It is one of three Grade I entries the National Heritage List for England records inside the borough, the others being Forty Hall, NHLE 1294469, and the screen wall, gateway and north pavilions to its west, NHLE 1079565. Southgate Underground station is about 714 m from the house and Winchmore Hill about 1,161 m.