PAVILION AT NGR 42789 26480

The following building shall be added:-

WARWICK SP2764 LINEN STREET 811-0/8/10006 Hill Close Gardens: Pavilion at NGR 42789-26480

GV II Detached town garden pavilion. Circa 1870-80. Red brick with some, stone dressings. Steeply-pitched plain tile roof with gable to front and rear, the front with pierced wavey bargeboards, the rear gable has brick stack. Small square 1-room plan building entered from the west front, over a basement entered from thr right [south] side. 1 storey and basement. Gabled west front with central round-headed doorway with semi-circular fanlight, keystone and stone imposts shared with flanking narrow round-headed windows with stone cills and patches of render below. The jambs of the doorway and windows are chamfered. The steps up to the door, the door and the sashes are missing. South side has cambered arches to basement doorway and window. INTERIOR: The matchboarding on the walls, the chimneypiece and the ceiling are partly missing. Hill Close Gardens were established in about 1846 as pleasure garden allotments and by 1877 there were 37 garden plots. They were laid out as detached gardens for town houses without gardens. SOURCES: Lambert, David. Study of Detached Town Gardens commissioned by English Heritage, 1994. Warwickshire Gardens Trust, Hill Close Gardens Preliminary Report.

Listing NGR: SP2788964805