Gazebo And Walls At Malabars

A gazebo and associated walls, dating from the early 18th century. The gazebo is constructed of brown brick with red brick dressings in a Flemish bond pattern, and has a plain tile roof. It is square in plan and single-storey over a basement. The south-western elevation features 18th-century brick steps with ashlar treads leading up to a double-leaf half-glazed door, which sits beneath a segmental gauged skewback arch. Steps also lead to two small windows, similarly set within segmental gauged skewback arches. The brickwork includes red brick quoins and a platband. A hipped roof is finished with a timber modillion eaves cornice and a weathervane. The east return has a late 18th-century tripartite sash window with 2/2;4/2;2/2 glazing bars. The west return has a single 4/4 sash window lighting the main room, and the basement contains a six-panelled door, the upper two panels being ovolated. The interior consists of large-framed and fielded dado panelling to all four sides, and a flat plastered ceiling. Retaining walls run south-west, constructed of yellow brick in English bond with concrete coping slabs transitioning to brick coping at the rise to the gazebo. A further wall runs north-west, with a Flemish bond pattern and larger brick banding every four courses, finished with brick and tile coping. This wall returns south-west along Bray’s Lane, pierced by two doorways, and was raised in height during the 19th century. The gazebo and walls represent a good example of an early 18th-century design. The wider Malabars estate is not of special interest.