Pair of garden lodges, gate-piers and garden wall c.25m to the south-east of Leigh Court (formerly Leigh Court Farmhouse) is a Grade II listed building in the Malvern Hills local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 February 1988. Garden lodges. 1 related planning application.
Pair of garden lodges, gate-piers and garden wall c.25m to the south-east of Leigh Court (formerly Leigh Court Farmhouse)
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-crypt-vale
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Malvern Hills
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 February 1988
- Type
- Garden lodges
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The pair of garden lodges, gate piers, and garden wall are located approximately 25 metres south-east of Leigh Court. The lodges, built around the 18th century, mark the north-west entrance to the walled garden.
The lodges are constructed from brick with stone dressings, clay tile roofs, and brick stacks. The gate piers are of stone, and the garden wall is of brick. The lodges are square in plan, standing 3.2 metres apart, flanking wooden entrance gates hung on stone piers.
They are built in a Tudor style, single-storey, with stone quoins, a continuous stone entablature, and large, stone-coped parapets that hide pyramidal roofs. The parapets of each lodge rise in the centre on each side to form shaped gables; the gables on the north-west and south-east elevations each contain a sundial tablet. The south-east (garden) elevation of each lodge features a single, three-light, double-chamfered mullioned window. The elevations facing the garden entrance have a moulded doorway and an attached gate pier with a stone cap at the level of the entablature. A brick stack is present on the south-west elevation of the south-west lodge; the stack of the north-east lodge has been removed.
The interiors of both lodges have 19th and 21st-century blue brick floors, with some 20th and early-21st-century brick patching. The south-west lodge retains its brick fireplace and has now been ceiled, while the north-east lodge, where the fireplace has been removed, remains open to the roof.
The lodges provide access to a walled garden enclosed by a brick wall approximately 2 metres high. The north-west section of the wall, facing Leigh Court, includes a segmental-arched doorway and a tall, octagonal pier with a stone cap. The upper courses of walling in this area were rebuilt in the 20th century. A gateway on the south-east side of the garden allows access to a further garden, which is not of particular heritage interest.
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