Garden Cottage With Attached Kitchen Garden Wall And Outbuildings

Garden Cottage, located on the south side of Ellesmere Road in Whittington, is a gardener's cottage dating from the late 18th century, with some minor later alterations. The cottage is constructed of red brick and features a graded slate roof with external end stacks. It has two storeys and an attic, comprising three bays. The windows on each floor to the left and right of the central six-panel door (with the top panels now glazed) have 16-paned glazing bar sashes and a rectangular barred overlight above. There are two 19th-century gabled dormers at the top of the roof slope.

To the right, there is a single-storey brick lean-to that includes a 16-paned glazing bar sash window at the front. The cottage is situated at the north-east corner of a kitchen garden wall that encloses a rectangular area of approximately 100 by 70 meters. The wall is made of red brick with stone coping, which is chamfered on the east and west sides and features ball finials at the corners. The main entrance is on the east side, marked by sandstone ashlar gate piers with moulded plinths and capping topped with ball finials.

There is an entrance on the south side through a moulded stone doorway with an eared architrave, and a similar entrance on the west side, where the coping ramps up around the doorway and includes ball finials. A plain segmental-headed doorway is located towards the west end on the north side, with buttresses on the outside to the east. Attached to the north side is a range of contemporary lean-to outbuildings that feature mid-19th-century casements, some of which are leaded, with a mix of gauged heads and stone lintels and cills. There are also two heating flues and a cast-iron pump attached towards the east end.

Inside the cottage, there is a central straight-flight staircase and contemporary wooden fireplaces in the ground-floor rooms, with the left one in the Adam style and the right one featuring a Greek-key pattern.