Style
English Landscape Garden
Lake
Description: There are two lakes on the southern boundary of the park. The large pool has the appearance of being an old manorial fish pond. At its southern end, the stream shows signs of early canalisation to create water features.
Kitchen Garden
Description: The Walled Garden was formerly the kitchen garden to the Winstanley Household. The first reference to it was as early as 1792, when it was described as having "hot houses of considerable magnitude and the garden planted with choice fruit trees". The hot houses provided a large and diverse range of fruit and vegetables: nectarines, cherries, apricots and melons. In later year, it was ued as holding beds for trees and shrubs before they were distributed to the various parks in the City. In the early 1980's it was re-designed and opened to the public on 22nd May 1983. It now provides shelter for a rich variety of herbaceous plants and shrubs, together with spring bulbs.
Date: 1782-2008
Wall
Description: A prominent feature of the northern-most section of the park is now an Adventure Playground with a Graffiti Wall.
Date: 1991-1995
Manor House (featured building)
Description: Late-18th century. Rainwater-head dated 1776. Entrance front, three storeys, five windows, sashes with glazing bars, flat brick arches. Centre slightly recessed full height under round headed arch. Double stone band over ground floor, stone band over first floor. Central windows have moulded stone architraves, the top one cambered headed, and the first floor one with frieze and cornice. Stone sills. Stone modillioned cornice and blocking course. Hipped slate roof. Plinth. Central stone doorcase feature in three bays, the centre one having three-quarter columns with fluted caps and semi-circular arch enclosing panelled door with ornamental fanlight, outer bays with narrow sash windows with attached three-quarter outer piers in suite with the central columns. Triglyph frieze, mutule cornice and pediment. Side elevation similar general character; two projecting chimney breasts each; the west side with a later three-storey wing. Park front, as entrance front, no central recess. The centre window on each floor has a moulded stone architrave, that on first floor with frieze and cornice, the top floor cased, and the ground floor with a central doorcase with architrave and pediment. Wing set back to right dated 1911, two sash windows, three storeys, similar general style, stone modillioned cornice and blocking course, hipped slate roof. Set in landscaped park. Engravings in Nicholls "History of Leicestershire". Interior: hall with marble. Ionic columns, contemporary staircase with iron balusters. Ground floor room with moulded cornice, frieze, and fireplace, doorcases with carved cornices and friezes. Brick vaulted cellar.
Date: 1775-2008
Stable Block
Description: Red brick. Slate roof. Two storeys. Central archway with pedimental gable over, with lunette and pigeon holes. To each side, four windows with flat brick arches, stone sills, casements with glazing bars. At ends projecting wings with elliptical arch carriageways facing inwards and lunette in end wall. Brick dentil eaves. The stable block is currently used as offices. Braunstone Hall, the kitchen Wing and Stables form a group.
Date: 1766-1798
Building
Description: Kitchen wing immediately west of Braunstone Hall. Red brick slate hipped roof. 2 storeys. Built around a square courtyard. Facing yard, 3 windows to each side with flat brick arches. Sashes with glazing bars, two doors with semi-circular fan-lights. Braunstone Hall, the kitchen wing and stables form a group.
Date: 1766-1798
