Beech Lawn, Dr. Jephson, is a suburban villa, of several acres, with an excellent square house, and grounds sloping down from it on three sides. On the entrance front, the lawn is separated from the gravelled area on which carriages turn, by a ridge of rockwork 3 or 4 feet high, richly planted with flowers. This is intended to keep off dogs from the lawn, and appears to be a good idea for similar situations. Besides a pleasure-ground planted with a considerable variety of trees and shrubs, there is a small fruit-garden, and an excellent kitchen-garden, with a vinery, peach-house, pine-pits, &c.; the whole, with the exception of the turf edgings of the walks (which are too narrow, and pared with the spade instead of being cut with the shears), well kept. A great improvement to this place would be, a terrace and Italian flower-garden to connect the house with the lawn. The magnitude of the house, its architecture, and the elevated situation on which it stands, particularly point out this style of decoration; besides, it would have been something new in Leamington, where all the gardens are formed on one type. Among the trees planted are some beautiful specimens of Turkey and Lucombe oaks of several varieties. [Editor's note: this may be the property at the junction of Grove Street and Warwick Street shown on OS 6" Sheet XXXIII SE 1889 edn]
