Bothy Cottage, West And East Yards North-West Of Ascot Place

WINKFIELD

SU97SW PIGEONHOUSE LANE 674-1/13/271 (South side (off)) Bothy Cottage, west and east yards north-west of Ascot Place

GV II

Estate workers cottage and walled yard. Cottage: mid C18 altered C19. MATERIALS: red brick in Flemish bond, old tile hipped roof. PLAN: long rectangular plan. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys with corbelled heads and clay pots near ridge, to right of centre. Dentilled brick eaves. C19 casement windows with glazing bars, those on ground floor have segmental brick arched heads. Entrance front, north, irregular four 2-light and 1 single-light windows on first floor, three 2-light windows ground floor at right end with half glazed entrance door, moulded architrave, doorcase and bracketed hood with moulded cornice. Door to right of first window. To left pair of wooden plank doors with segmental arched head. At left end single wooden plank door. Enclosing walls to yard are C18 in Flemish bond. Wall in west approximately 2 metres high with dentilled eaves and projecting brick coping and adjoins cottage on north-west corner. Northern end of wall is wide entrance with segmental arched head and keystone. Adjoining this on north and forming feature rising above wall is small square agricultural building with platband, keyed oculus opening, dentilled eaves and old tile hipped roof. Wooden plank entrance door on east side. East yard enclosed by C18 walls approximately 3 metres high with opening in west wall to West yard. Wall on south includes gateway and included separately with the East walled garden, gateways and aviary (qv). The Bothy Cottage, west and east yards, together with Greenhouse Garden and former cattleshed and yard, East walled garden, gateways and aviary (qqv) are all parts of the Kitchen gardens to Ascot Place.