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
Garden House is a two-storey building with attics and cellars, located at the north-west corner of a walled garden. It is constructed from cream-colored brick and features slate mansard roofs. The house projects from the garden wall and has a single-storey range extending behind the north garden wall.
The exterior displays rusticated quoins on the ground and first floors, with prominent string courses marking the divisions between these levels and between the first floor and the attics. The north and west elevations each have one sash window on the ground and first floors, while the east elevation has a sash window on the first floor only. These windows are topped with segmental arches that feature pronounced keystones and a recess below the sill. All three elevations include oval windows in the attics, designed as eyebrow dormers. The south elevation, which serves as the entrance, has two casement dormer windows flanking a broad chimney stack. Access to the Garden House garden is through a door in the west garden wall, located just south of the house. The single-storey range to the east has two sash windows and one door beneath a segmental arch. The entrance to the house is through a small single-storey wing on the south elevation.
Inside, the single-storey entrance wing contains a bathroom to the west of the front door. The staircase is directly opposite the front door, leading to a room with a fireplace and a kitchen in the single-storey range to the east, and a living room with a fireplace to the west. The layout of the first floor and attic mirrors that of the ground floor, featuring one large room above the living room and a smaller room to the south. The first floor lacks surviving fireplaces, while the attics contain two chimney breasts or blocked fireplaces. All remaining interior details are plain.
The southern boundary of the garden is marked by a low brick wall.
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