Garden Walls With Privy Wash House And Shed To East Of The Rectory

The garden walls with a privy, wash house, and shed are located to the east of The Rectory and date from the mid to late 18th century, with the buildings from the early 19th century. The walls are constructed of squared sandstone, while the north and east walls have hand-made brick inner faces arranged in an irregular English garden wall bond. The buildings are made of squared stone and feature Welsh slate roofs, with the lean-to shed having a stone-flagged roof. These walls enclose a square garden, with the privy positioned near the south-west corner, the wash house at the north-west corner, and the lean-to shed on the outer face of the north wall.

The walls are flat-coped, with the north wall measuring approximately 35 meters long and being double-skinned. It was previously heated by flues connected to three tiers of small segmental-headed coal furnaces, which are now blocked but still visible on the outer face. The outer face also displays several battered abutments. The east wall is 45 meters long and features a ramped-up north section with two stepped buttresses. The lower south wall, measuring 40 meters long, has a rounded south-west corner, while the similar west wall, 30 meters long, has an off-centre doorway with alternating jambs and is ramped up at the junction with the wash house.

The small privy, located inside the garden on the rear of the raised section of the wall, has a partly-glazed six-panel door and a wooden seat with three openings. The single-storey, three-bay wash house has an east bay in the garden with a 16-pane sash window and a slate roof with an end stack; the other two bays are roofless. The single-storey, two-bay lean-to shed on the outer face of the north wall features two segmental arches and a low pent roof.

Later lean-to additions at the north-east corner on the outer face of the east wall, which is at the rear of Rectory Terrace, as well as a short section of wall running from the south-east corner to Rectory Terrace, are not considered to be of special interest.