The garden at Shaw's Corner was principally a place for relaxation and exercise, with an area set aside for Shaw to chop wood.

The gardeners, Harry Higgs and later Fred Drury, remembered the Shaws walking round deep in conversation. 'They used to put stones in a heap in a certain spot to mark every mile. They had a special route round the garden which was just about a mile, and they put one stone down every time they passed it... They used to take them off the window sill on the way back, one by one.'

The garden was extended in 1920, when Shaw bought land from his friend Apsley Cherry-Garrard, and now totals 1.4 hectares (3.5 acres). Shaw took little direct interest in what was grown, leaving many decisions to his head gardener. But, 'he was very fond of his garden -used to walk around it a lot. It gave him exercise without the need for going outside his gates' (Drury).

Outside the back door is the pump house. This was originally operated by a manual pump, but later enlarged to contain an electric pump powered from the accumulator house which was built in 1930. It powers the water supplies to the house.

At the bottom of the garden is the revolving hut, originally Charlotte Shaw's summer house, but which was annexed by Shaw and where he found the peace he needed to write.