Garden Cottage, Wall To Kitchen Garden And West Screen Wall To Lower Courtyard, Pishiobury Park

PISHIOBURY DRIVE 1. 5253 (East End) Garden Cottage, wall to kitchen garden and W screen wall to lower courtyard, Pishiobury Park TL 480 133:6/32 6.6.52 II GV 2. C18 former gardener's house. 2 storey red brick steep hipped roof. C19 rear (N) extension in red brick and tile. S front faces into garden. 3 windows, parapet and central door. Sash windows with 6/6 panes and fine rubbed brick flat arches. Single storey lean-to section on E end with wide heavy framed door to garden and mullioned window to store. Late C16 high red brick wall with flat buttresses and thickened base on garden side extends from SW corner of Garden House for about 100 yards NW. Fine C18 wrought iron spiked barrier at end overhangs waterway enclosing S side of kitchen garden. From SE corner of Garden House a tall C18 red brick wall with broad external pilasters encloses the SW side of the kitchen garden. The wall has tumbled brickwork and brick on edge coping at the top. Running from the C16 wall to the SW corner of the C16 stable block, a lower screen wall of similar brickwork closes the W side of the lower courtyard. In it a wide gateway with fine C18 red brick gate piers. Bold rustication of projecting 3 course panels. Recesses for gate. Tops rebuilt with modern ball finials.

Listing NGR: TL4802013360