Kitchen Garden And Associated Bothies And Gardeners Cottage 130 Metres North East Of Combe Abbey

This is a kitchen garden and associated bothies and a gardener’s cottage, built between 1863 and 1865 by Eden Nesfield for the Earl of Craven, located approximately 130 metres north-east of Combe Abbey. Later alterations occurred in the late 20th century. The structures are built of red brick with ashlar dressings and have plain tile roofs, designed in a Domestic Revival style.

The gardener’s cottage is two storeys high with two external side wall stacks topped with ashlar copings. It has a two-bay front and an L-shaped layout. The windows are wooden casements, some replaced in the late 20th century. The garden front features a projecting wing on the left with a half-hipped roof, containing a three-light casement window on the ground floor and a four-light casement above. A hipped porch with a pointed arched doorway and original half-glazed door are situated in the return angle. A chimney on the right has an inscribed plaque. The rear includes a central bay with a hipped roof, a lean-to porch, and side door, flanked by a gabled projecting wing to the left and a hipped wing to the right. A single window is present on each floor of these sections; a single-story addition was added in the 20th century.

The bothy is in a similar style, comprising a two-story block to the north and a lower, single-story plus attics range to the south. The garden front has two ground-floor windows and a central, 20th-century lean-to addition. Above, a central hipped through-eaves dormer with a two-light casement is flanked by prominent side wall stacks, one with an inscribed plaque. The rear has an off-centre door in an altered opening, flanked by a two-light casement to the right and two similar windows to the left. A large hipped through-eaves dormer with a four-light casement sits above, along with a smaller window to the right. The lower range features a segment-headed door flanked to the left by a three-light casement and two smaller two-light casements. A two-light casement is housed within a hipped through-eaves dormer above on the right.

The kitchen garden walls are approximately 3 metres high, with stone and blue brick copings, forming a rectangular enclosure. The north range includes two doors, an inserted opening, and adjoining the bothy, a range of single-story lean-to buildings with slate roofs. Brackets on the north side formerly supported line shafting. At the west end is an arcade with alternating round and square granite piers; the central opening is inserted. The south side has an opening with square piers.