Screen Wall And Outbuildings And Two Boundary Walls With Former Entrance To Stable Yard, To North And West Of House

TL 23 NE GUILDEN MORDEN ICKNIELD WAY (North-west side) 7/131 Screen wall and outbuildings and two boundary walls with former entrance to stable yard, to north and west of Odsey House

GV II

Screen wall and outbuildings, and boundary walls and former entrance to stable yard, enclosing an open courtyard to north-west and south-west of Odsey House. Circa 1730, possibly for the Third Duke of Devonshire. Red brick and gauged brick dressings. Screen wall to north-west linking former kitchen with stable range; outbuildings attached to rear possibly include game larders and an ice house. Wall of seven unequal bays divided by small brick pilasters, moulded string course with recessed panels above and moulded cornice; two segmental headed archways with brick imposts and keyblock, central archway with segmental pedimented limestone sundial above, incised with Roman numerals; two hung sash windows to right hand. Boundary walls between stable and coach house with rusticated gate piers now reduced with C20 ball finials; opening recently blocked; wall beyond coach house and stable block to south-east terminates in a plain pier. The walls may have been ornamented by urns with finials and lion masks similar to those flanking the entrance to Odsey, Guilden Morden, not in situ and possibly to a design by William Kent listed in Hertfordshire.

RCHM Report 1950.

Listing NGR: TL2950438056