Gardeners Cottage Including Attached Garden Walls, Sheds And Cart Sheds

SE21SE WEST BRETTON PARK ROAD (south side, off)

8/87 Gardener's cottage including attached garden walls, sheds and cart sheds.

GV II

Cottage, garden walls, sheds and cart sheds. Early to mid C19. Ashlar, Welsh slate roofs. Red brick garden walls. Single storey. The cottage is centrally placed with the garden walls curving forward (south) to each side. The sheds and cart sheds are lean-to against the rear of the left wall and are curved on plan. The cottage: formerly a symmetrical 5-bay front the centre bay breaking forward slightly and rusticated. Formerly a central door (now a 12-pane sash) with flat arch. 12-pane sashes to each side, that to far right now a doorway. Tall balustraded parapet. Hipped roof. 2 ashlar stacks. Rear: the sheds form a low range whose window and door openings are built skew in-line with the falling ground and are thus not rectangular. The doors and glazing are shaped to fit. Deep plinth, moulded cornice and blocking course. 9-bay cart shed to left of sheds, formerly open, now with doors, separated by monolithic square stone piers with bases and caps. Formerly the brick walls were continuous across the south side of the garden, but the bottom wall has been demolished.

Listing NGR: SE2848213229