Wych Elms and Attached Wall, Goldings Park

This is a gardener’s cottage, built between 1912 and 1913. It was designed by HS Goodhart-Rendel and is located within Goldings Park. The cottage is constructed of red brick in a Flemish bond pattern, with decorative tile hanging and a roof covered in orange sandfaced clay tiles. It exhibits a Vernacular Revival style. The chimney stacks are coupled and square, originally backed by a balustrade, with a flat lead roof above the west elevation.

The cottage is one and two storeys high, with attic space. The east-facing elevation features two canted bay windows with triple sash windows, divided into 8, 16, and 8 panes, beneath overhanging eaves. A central doorway has a six-panel semicircular-headed door, the top two panels glazed, set within a red rubbed brick arch. Rusticated pilasters flank the door, and quoins mark the corners. The return elevations have asymmetrical gables covered in tiles, and the roof slopes down to meet the window heads on the east elevation. A large six-light wood mullion and transom window is located on the first floor, above two narrow eight-pane sash windows on the ground floor. A two-storey flat-roofed projection extends westward, spanning the garden wall and facing the former mansion.

The west elevation also has two canted brick bay windows. A projecting plate band is visible at first-floor level, and the first-floor windows feature brick mullions, tile-creased transoms, and original leaded lights; though the metal casements have been replaced with plain glass. Corbelled cornice bands and a blocking course are present, formerly supporting a turned wood balustrade. Rusticated quoins frame a central arched recess, originally designed as a garden shelter. A central gabled dormer window with a casement is situated on the west side of the roof.

The interior was not inspected as part of the listing process.

A high red brick wall, which also uses a Flemish bond pattern, dates to the 18th century. It originally formed part of the gardens of the earlier Goldings mansion, which was demolished around 1875. HS Goodhart Rendel (1887-1959) was an architect whose work reflected the transition from the Arts and Crafts Movement to Modernism, and this cottage is considered an early work influenced by Edwin Lutyens.