Garden Cottage With Attached Kitchen Garden Wall And Outbuildings

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WHITTINGTON C.P. ELLESMERE ROAD (south side) Garden Cottage with attached kitchen garden wall and outbuildings

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Shown on O.S. Map as Halston Gardens. Gardener's cottage with attached kitchen garden wall and associated outbuildings. Late C18 with minor later alterations. Cottage: red brick; graded slate roof with external end stacks. 2 storeys and attic; 3 bays. 16- paned glazing bar sashes on each floor to left and right of central 6-panel door (top panels now glazed) with rectangular barred overlight. Two C19 gabled dormers to top of roof slope. Single-storey brick lean-to to right has 16-paned glazing bar sash window to front. Situated at north-east corner of kitchen garden wall enclosing rectangular area of approximately 100 x 70m. Red brick with stone coping, chamfered on east and west sides with ball finials to corners. Main entrance on east: sandstone ashlar gate piers with moulded plinths and capping surmounted by ball finials. Entrance on south through moulded stone doorway with eared architrave; similar entrance to west with coping ramped up around doorway and ball finials. Plain segmental-headed doorway towards west end on north. Buttresses to outside on east. Range of contemporary lean-to outbuildings attached to outside on north has mid-C19 casements (some leaded) with mixture of gauged heads and stone lintels and cills. 2 heating flues and cast-iron pump attached towards east end. Interior of cottage: has central straight- flight staircase. Contemporary wooden fireplaces to ground-floor rooms, left Adam style and right with Greek-key pattern.

Listing NGR: SJ3343131840