Garden House And Adjoining Garden Wall And Gates

Garden House, now divided into two, dates from the early 17th century. It is constructed of flint with some red brick headers, and features red brick quoins and dressings. The house has a hipped, plaintiled roof with a wide eaves overhang and stands two storeys tall with attics. There are two internal chimney stacks with plain red brick shafts. Originally, the house had eight small-paned sash windows on each storey, but this has been reduced to five on each storey, with two blank panels on the ground floor and three above infilled with flint and a diamond of red brick headers. A garden door has replaced one of the windows. The house also features three flat-headed dormers with two-light diamond-leaded casement windows. Inside, there is little visible framing, but two main ceiling beams have chamfer and scroll-stops. The wide internal splay of one blocked rear window suggests that the house was always built with flint and brick walling. The roof has heavy principal rafters and butt purlins. There are later extensions at the rear. The house likely originally faced northwards, and the area to the north of the internal stack in No. 1 has been given arches to the stair and the doorways on each side in a late 17th century Classical style, featuring rounded half columns, moulded capitals, and plain abacus. Extending southwards from the east end of the house is a long stretch of high 18th century red brick garden wall with decorative copings, built with lower courses in English Bond. Attached to this wall is a pair of high ornamental wrought-iron double gates, with plain red brick piers topped by stone urns.