Garden House Including Adjoining Steps And Wall Linking To Double Gatepiers East Side

SE4807 HOOTON PAGNELL HOOTON PAGNELL HALL

11/103 Garden house including adjoining steps and wall linking to double gate piers on east side

GV II

Garden house with steps, linking wall and gate piers. Probably built between 1912-23 by Granville Streatfeild for Sarah Julia Warde-Aldam. Red brick and snecked rubble limestone, Cotswold stone slate roof. Rectangular single-roomed building with loggia and stack projections. In Arts and Crafts style. Single storey with undercroft. Entrance front on east side has loggia to left with end piers and arch-braced posts supporting extension to hipped roof with slated gablits. Double door within loggia has moulded quoins and Tudor-arched lintel. Plain wall with hipped roof set back on right has crow-stepped gabled projection facing right with lateral stack having offset base and quoined shaft with cornice. Left return, facing south, has brick facade with Tudor-arched doorway on left of 8-light, double- chamfered, mullioned window with iron casements. Unglazed 2-light window into loggia on right.

Interior: inglenook fireplace with coving above; exposed rubble walls; heavy-scantling roof trusses.

Set of steps adjoining right of entrance front sweep down to rear and are bounded by contemporary garden walls with moulded copings. Wall linked to left of entrance front terminates at double gate piers having quoins and broad cornices with ball finials, the shorter inner piers carrying wrought-iron gates with scrolls and floral motifs.

Unsigned plan exists in the estate office, dated 1912. Plans of associated garden structures carry Streatfeild's name and dates 1914-1923.

Listing NGR: SE4854507806