Garden House And Adjoining Garden Wall And Gates

TL 87 NE EUSTON EUSTON PARK

4/31 Nos. 1 & 2 Garden House & 14.7.55 adjoining garden wall and gates. (Formerly listed as Gardeners House)

GV II

House, now divided into 2. Early C17. Flint, with an admixture of red brick headers; red brick quoins and dressings. Hipped, plaintiled roof with wide eaves overhang. 2 storeys and attics. 2 internal chimney-stacks with plain red brick shafts. The original range of 8 small-paned sash windows to each storey has been reduced to 5 on each storey, with 2 blank panels to the ground storey and 3 above infilled with flint and a diamond of red brick headers. A garden door replaces one window. 3 flat- headed dormers with 2-light diamond-leaded casement windows. Little framing visible inside: 2 main ceiling beams with chamfer and scroll-stops. The wide internal splay of one blocked rear window indicates that the house always had flint and brick walling. Roof with heavy principal rafters and butt purlins. Later extensions at the rear. The house probably originally faced northwards, with a lobby entrance: 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 of it in late C17 Classical style, with rounded half columns, moulded capitals, and plain abacus, Extending southwards from the east end of the house is a long stretch of high C18 red brick garden wall, with decorative copings. The lower courses are in English Bond. Attached to this is a pair of high ornamental wrought-iron double gates, with plain red brick piers surmounted by stone urns.

Listing NGR: TL8974878794