Garden House, Outbuildings And Walls, To South West Of Rokeby Park

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13 and 6/152 Garden House, outbuildings and walls, to south- west of Rokeby Park

GV II

Garden walls, early C18 heightened in late C18 or C19; Garden House probably early C19. South wall brick in irregular bond, other walls brick with rubble outer faces, cut stone dressings. Garden House has front of squared tooled stone, other elevations rubble; Welsh slate roof. Outbuildings rubble with stone slate roofs.

Garden c.110 x 65 metres, with Garden House front forming east part of north side, and rear wall of Stable Block (q.v.) forming most of east side. Tall walls with flat stone coping. Central north gateway has squared stone piers with block caps and ball finials. 2 doorways at south east corner, the southern segmental-arched; enlarged gateway at west of south wall. Heating ducts in south wall.

Garden House 2 storeys, 3 + 1 bays. Raised quoins. Renewed door in second bay; 16-pane sash windows with slightly-projecting sills, except for small inserted lst-floor window between right bays. Hipped roof with 2 banded ridge stacks. Rear central 6-panel door with 2-pane overlight and 16-pane sash above. Pent-roofed outbuildings to right include cottage, with two 9-pane sashes under timber lintels, and 5-bay cartshed with timber lintels on stone piers.

Outbuildings are included for group value.

Attached outbuildings at rear of west garden wall are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NZ0810614107