Ladygrove Stud Farm Including Dairy Cottage, Ladygrove Lodge, And Kiln Wood Lodge

Ladygrove Stud Farm comprises a model farm with two farm cottages, now a stud farm with a staff cottage, and two separate houses, dating to 1913. Designed by E.L. Lutyens for H.G. Fenwick as a home farm to Temple Dinsley, it was divided in the late 1970s. The farm is constructed of dark red brick in English bond, with light red brick dressings. It features steep, handmade red tile roofs with a continuous tile corbel course to bellcast eaves.

The farm is laid out with a compact arrangement of single- and two-storey buildings around a large enclosed courtyard, and two narrower open-ended courts to the south, designed for a symmetrical appearance when approached from the north between the twin cottages and through an archway into the courtyard. The former dairy, now Dairy Cottage, is centrally located within the courtyard, surrounded on the east, west, and south by stables. A taller, gambrel-roofed cross range on the north side has a two-storey centre with a tall gabled projection flanked by recessed, balustraded staircases to the east and west, which rise to hip-roofed projections with doors to the stair and high-level access to the courtyard. A lozenge pattern of dove-holes with tile ledges is incorporated into the gable of the projection, and a splayed doorway with a round-arch, tile-filled spandrels, and segmental outer arch features a similar design. This doorway has been converted to windows at the junction of single-storey outbuilding ranges to the cottages, and serves as the front door to Dairy Cottage. Three lower-pitched roof ranges extend southward, defining a cattle yard on the east and a horse yard on the west. The central and east ranges have cross-gables at their northern ends; a louvred vent is in the tile-hung north gable, and a heavy wooden sliding door is present. The south part of the west range is a taller barn with a hipped porch and boarded double doors on the west side, while the north part contains stables opening into the yard.

The long eastern elevation along the lane has five small, two-light brick mullioned windows with tile lintels and drips. A typical Lutyens chimney, with clasping corner pilasters and a waisted top, is located near the west end of the gambrel-roofed cross-range. This chimney style was copied on the Dairy Cottage when it was re-roofed and converted in 1970 after being derelict. A wall now closes the axial approach from the south across the original archway. A tall archway in the middle of the south cross-range has arched braces and heavy posts at each end, and a wind vane with a cow on top is positioned in the center. Two symmetrically-disposed, single-storey cottages are located at the north end, each with a steep mansard roof with hipped dormers at the eaves and a lower hipped projection to the north for the staircase, which has an entrance facing the drive. A catslide roof covers an outshut to the outer side. Flush wooden, two-light casement windows are set under segmental arches to the ground floor. Some alteration has been made to the entrances to provide recessed porches. Each cottage has a tall central chimney with clasping corner pilasters, a waisted top, and projecting panels on the north and south faces. Originally named Home Farm, it was later known as Minsden Farm.