Range Comprising Conservatory Vine Houses, Walls To Associated Root Beds, And Garden Houses (Now House) At The Walled Gardens

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SHERFIELD ON LODDON WILDMOOR LANE SU 65 NE (south side)

6/80 Range comprising conservatory vine houses, walls to associated root beds, and garden houses (now house) at The Walled Garden

GV II

Conservatory: vine houses with retaining walls to associated root beds; and garden houses, now house. 2 1/2 C19 and c.1900; restored and garden houses converted 1980s. Conservatory for J Taylor, possibly designed by Fairfax B Wade; this and the vine houses constructed by Messenger and Company (of Loughborough). Red brick in Flemish bond; vine houses and conservatory wood and iron framed with glass walls and roofs, part of the conservatory roof with replacement polycarbonate panels; garden houses with artificial slate roofs. On south side of spine wall are the glasshouses comprising 3 sections of lean-to vine houses flanking the conservatory (1 section to left, 2 to right, that to extreme right formerly occupying the position of the palm house); in front of the vine houses are root beds; to rear of spine wall are garden houses, that at west end in original condition, the rest now converted to house. Main (south) elevation: conservatory: 3 x 3 bays; brick plinth; small-pane glazing; central 2/3-glazed double door flanked by centre-pivoting windows, all in round-arched architraves with radial glazing bars to fanlights; wood cornice; pediment over- entrance; curved roof having hipped-roofed clerestorey with decorative weather-vane; returns each have windows as before to 2 front bays, the rear bays masked by the vine houses. Vine houses: brick plinths with blocked arched openings (for roots to grow through); small-pane glazing; doors in returns. Root beds have low retaining walls with chamfered tile coping. Rear: right-hand garden house has 4-panel door and 2 old small-pane windows; rest of range has late C20 doors and small-pane windows, roof heightened, and left-hand section extended forward slightly. Interior: conservatory has elegant frame with 4 columns at centre supporting clerestory and having decorative capitals and open- work arch braces; fretted main roof ribs with radial quadrant braces; original door and window fittings; slate shelf on decorative iron bench with front grille against rear wall (those formerly against other walls removed), and above it, fruit supports. In the vine houses, similar radial quadrant braces to main roof ribs; funicular ventilating system; metal floor grille to passage. The window and ventilation-opening systems are in good working order throughout. The conservatory is an elegant example and an unusual survival.

Listing NGR: SU6777356882