Garden House is a Grade II listed building in the County Durham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 7 December 1987. House. 1 related planning application.
Garden House
- WRENN ID
- idle-roof-reed
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- County Durham
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 7 December 1987
- Type
- House
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Garden House is a former head gardener's house, now a private dwelling, built in the mid-19th century for the Brancepeth Estate. The building features roughcast masonry and chimney stacks, topped with a graduated green slate roof. It has an H-plan layout and is two stories high with a three-bay front, where the central bay is flanked by projecting cross-gabled wings.
A wide semicircular porch has been added to the central bay, featuring a central six-panel door and a patterned overlight, framed by paired Doric columns. On either side of the porch are 12-pane sash windows, which are also framed by identical end columns and an entablature that projects forward above the paired columns. The wings have 12-pane sash windows with projecting sills, and the roofs have overhanging eaves and verges, with exposed purlins.
Tall corniced lateral stacks are located on the inner returns. The right return has a doorway with a four-centred head under a hoodmould, flanked by segmental bow windows. Above the door, there is a small gabled half-dormer with a 12-pane sash window.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
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