Separately designated as a Registered Park and Garden (English Heritage), this area relates to the gentrification of the Beauchief estate, the immediate hinterland of the medieval abbey at Beauchief (see HSY2254). After the reformation, the estate (this part of which is thought to have been the site of a medieval grange) passed into the hands of Sir Nicholas Strelley and then down through marriage to the Pegge family (ibid). The development of the estate as a designed landscape seems to have been undertaken by Samuel Pegge who built the surviving Pegges Cottage in 1667 (SCC 1998) and Beauchief Hall in 1671 (ibid) from stone reused from the derelict abbey. An early 18th century account (mentioned by English Heritage, 2003) describes much of the ornamental landscape surrounding the hall that survives - including the gardens and courts adjacent to the hall, a tree lined walk to a point where the ruined abbey might be viewed, the location of the kitchen gardens and a deer paddock (now fossilised as one of the enclosures on the adjacent sports fields). In the south of this polygon are possible medieval fish ponds and a 20th century (Cold War) Royal Observer Monitoring Post (SMR PRN4647). Significant legibility of older landscape features.