Kitchen Garden Walls Immediately North East Of Oaksmere (Including Vehicular Entrance)

TM 17 NW 1/13

BROME RECTORY ROAD Kitchen garden walls immediately north east of Oaksmere (including adjoining vehicular entrance)

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Kitchen garden walls with adjoining vehicular entrance. Later C18 and mid C19. Red brick. To the south is a 40m long section of crenellated walling about 2.5m high, the upper half with recessed geometric panels. Tall square piers with stepped tapering brick caps. At the west end is a 4-centre arched stone gateway with stepped parapet, dated 1861. Plank door with studded cover battens. An adjoining section of the wall at right angles, on the road frontage, has a vehicular entrance; gates missing. On the west side of the kitchen garden is plain walling of earlier date, probably C18. Against the south end is a 15-storey block formerly used as stabling, with gabled coach houses at each end: clay lump and timber frame construction, tarred, with slated roof. Unaltered exterior, the stables with 2 gabled half-dormers and a small ventilation turret with wind vane. North side of kitchen garden has C18 serpentine walls about 3m high and extending for some 40m. Mid C19 gateway with 2-centred stone arch. A small section of the serpentine wall was blown down in early 1986. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: TM1385276496