Garden House and low brick garden wall is a Grade II listed building in the Central Bedfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 2012. House.

Garden House and low brick garden wall

WRENN ID
sacred-soffit-poplar
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Central Bedfordshire
Country
England
Date first listed
21 May 2012
Type
House
Source
Historic England listing

Description

MATERIALS: built of cream coloured brick with slate mansard roofs.

PLAN: the house stands at the north-west corner of the walled garden, a square block of two storeys with attics and cellars projecting out from the garden wall, continuing as a single storey range behind the north garden wall.

EXTERIOR: the ground and first floors have rusticated quoins, and the division between these two and between the first floor and the attics are marked by pronounced string courses. The north and west elevations contain one sash window to ground and first floors, and the east elevation has a sash window to the first floor only. These windows have segmental arches with pronounced keystones and a recess below the sill. All three elevations have oval windows to the attics as eyebrow dormers. The south elevation has two casement dormer windows in the roof to either side of a broad chimney stack. The south is the entrance elevation, opening onto the Garden House garden which is reached through a door in the west garden wall immediately south of the house. The single storey range to the east contains two sash windows and one door under a segmental arch. The entrance to the house is through a small single storey wing in the south elevation.

INTERIOR: the single storey entrance wing also contains a bathroom to the west of the front door. The stairs are opposite the front door, with a room with fireplace and a kitchen in the single storey range to the east, and a living room with fireplace to the west. The plan of the first floor and attic is the same, with one large room above the living room, and a smaller room to the south. The first floor has no surviving fireplaces, while the attics have two chimney breasts or blocked fireplaces. All surviving detail is plain.

SUBSIDIARY ITEMS: the south boundary of the garden to the house is defined by a low brick wall.

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