Garden House And Walls And Gates Of Adjoining Walled Gardens

The garden house, along with its surrounding walls and gates of the adjoining walled gardens, dates primarily from the 18th century, with the house itself likely constructed around 1770, reportedly for the head gardener. It is built of red brick, with the west front and south end having a roughcast finish. The roof is steeply pitched and covered in slate.

The house is a two-story, three-window symmetrical structure in a Strawberry Hill Gothic style, facing west and overlooking large walled gardens to the rear which step up the slope to the north. The garden walls are approximately 3 metres high and buttressed, with a wrought iron double gate on the south side featuring a concave pointed overthrow.

The house features a plat-band, an arched and coved eaves cornice running around the entire building, and end chimneys. A projecting central bay on the west front has an ogee-headed window above, flanked by windows with quatrefoil heads. Painted heads and Y-tracery detail the end windows. Ground floor windows have pointed heads, and the front door features a pointed head design set within a rectangular label mould. The rear (east) side, facing the garden, is of red brick and has windows with pointed heads and two-light leaded casements. There’s a central four-light window on the first floor with an ogee head above a pointed doorway.