PAVILION AT NGR 42789 26480

The Pavilion at Hill Close Gardens is a detached town garden pavilion built around 1870-1880. It is constructed of red brick with some stone dressings and features a steeply-pitched plain tile roof with gables at both the front and rear. The front gable has pierced wavy bargeboards, while the rear gable includes a brick stack. This small, square, one-room building has a basement accessed from the right (south) side and is entered from the west front.

The gabled west front features a central round-headed doorway with a semi-circular fanlight, a keystone, and stone imposts. This doorway is flanked by narrow round-headed windows with stone cills and patches of render below. The jambs of the doorway and windows are chamfered. The steps leading up to the door, the door itself, and the sash windows are missing. On the south side, there are cambered arches for the basement doorway and window.

Inside, the matchboarding on the walls, the chimneypiece, and the ceiling are partly missing. Hill Close Gardens were established around 1846 as pleasure garden allotments, and by 1877, there were 37 garden plots, designed as detached gardens for townhouses without gardens.