Walled Garden, Garden Buildings And St Pauls Cottage To North East Of Lemmington Hall

EDLINGHAM LEMMINGTON HALL NU 11 SW 9/128 Walled garden, garden buildings and St. Paul's Cottage, to north- east of Lemmington Hall GV II

Garden walls,buildings and cottage. Walls and cottage C18 with early C20 alterations, garden buildings early C20. Walls brick in English Garden Wall Bond 1 and 4, with rubble external face except on east; cottage coursed rubble; garden buildings brick except for timber-framed greenhouse on brick base; cut dressings. Cottage roof stone flags; garden buildings roofed with red clay tiles.

Garden an irregular pentagon in plan, open to south-east. From south-west corner a 30-metre length of brick-faced wall continues south-west to join tall stone wall (q.v.) running towards the Hall. West wall of garden has ledged and boarded door with interlaced head in archway with raised stone surround, keystone and imposts. Cottage at rear of wall 1 storey + attic, 2 bays. Vertical-panelled door with narrow latticed overlight at left; 4-light flat- faced mullioned window at right, glazing altered. Inserted raking dormer; ridge stack. Through-stones on left return, and 2 windows with flattened Tudor-arched heads to lights. North-west wall of garden, reducing in thickness at mid-height, has flat coping and sloped buttresses to rear.

North wall of garden has 2 doors with interlaced ribs, in stone surrounds with grotesque masks on keystones; re-set sundial inscribed FEARE GOD AND OBAY THE KING, and stone-blocked heating ducts. To rear a range of single-storey buildings, some pent and some gabled, have round-arched lights with fancy glazing, doors with interlaced ribs, stepped and cogged eaves, and inserted ornamental brackets; at east end a T-shaped greenhouse with fluted posts, mouded and dentilled cornice, and carved spandrels. East wall of garden, collapsed at south end, has boldly-projecting buttresses to rear, with inserted ornamental brackets.

Included for group value. Castellated south extension to cottage, and greenhouse on south face of north wall, are not of special interest.

Listing NGR: NU1221811428