Stewards House And Attached Garden Walls, At Wrotham Park Home Farm

TQ 29 NW POTTERS BAR WROTHAM PARK, BARNET Stewards House and 8/274 attached garden walls, at Wrotham Park Home farm

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Estate cottage with attached garden walls. c1856 for Lord Enfield as Garden Cottage (q.v.). Red brick in Flemish bond; plain tile roof. Cottage 1½ storeys, 2 x 3 bays; wall attached to front left corner turning to enclose rectangular garden plot. Cottage: chamfered plinth and eaves. Openings have chamfered surrounds with gauged brick arches and dripmoulds, the windows small-paned and with wood mullions. Brick kneelers to raised verges with chamfered coping; gabled finials (most removed). Tall stacks with cogged cornices. West (farmyard) elevation has, on left a full-height, gabled, canted bay with transomed windows of 1, 3, 1 lights to ground floor and 3-light window above; on right, corbelled chimney. North (entrance) elevation has 2 left bays set back from gabled front range with porch in angle of decorative open timber work with tall hipped, finialled roof, and inner board door; 3-light flat-roofed dormer over and 3-light window to left. East (rear) elevation has paired, gabled, bays with outshut across ground floor and 2-light windows over; chimney rises from valley. Garden wall, approximately 1 m high, has rounded coping; simple iron gate to gateway near cottage, and brick pier at north-west corner with pyramidal capstone supporting decorative lamp bracket. Inwardly curved bay halfway along west (front) wall. Short section of wall projects from north-east corner of cottage and ends in gate pier with domed capstone. Outbuilding range to rear of this section of wall not of special interest.

Listing NGR: TQ2474198668