Gardener's Cottage, Battenhall Mount

Gardener's Cottage, located at Battenhall Mount, is a gardener's cottage built around 1895, designed by John Henry Williams for Hon. Alfred Percy Allsopp.

The cottage is constructed from Gault brick, laid in English bond on the ground floor, with stone dressings. The first floor features timber framing with rendered infill, topped by a roof made of red fish-scale tiles. It is two storeys high and includes an enclosed rear yard on the south-west side.

The front of the cottage, facing the road, has two prominent gabled bays. The ground floor windows each contain three mullioned casement lights with a transom. The first floor slightly jetties out and displays small-framed walling, a carved bresumer, and a middle rail that serves as the sill for two three-light casements. The gables are adorned with carved bargeboards and angled braces.

On the south-east side, which faces the side drive and serves as the entrance front, there is an entrance door to the right featuring a sunken panel carved with a coat of arms and the date ‘1896’. Above the entrance, the small framing includes two ogee braces, and there is a two-light casement under a gable with angled braces and carved bargeboards.

The north-west side has two single-light windows on the ground floor, while the first floor has blank small-framed walling with ogee braces at either end.

The rear of the cottage, facing the small back yard, shows random window placement on the ground floor and two three-light casements beneath gables on the first floor, similar to the front. Each of the two roof ridges features a large chimney stack made of gault brick, with a richly-moulded, stepped head that includes miniature gargoyle heads. The chimney stacks are elaborately moulded from brick and terracotta, with gargoyles at the upper corners.

Inside, the ground floor boasts panelled oak doors and a staircase with carved newel posts and balusters. The leaded casement windows retain their original fittings.