Greenhouses about 30 metres north of Wierton Place and attached garden wall is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1987. Greenhouse.
Greenhouses about 30 metres north of Wierton Place and attached garden wall
- WRENN ID
- sharp-lancet-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1987
- Type
- Greenhouse
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The structure consists of greenhouses and an attached kitchen garden wall, built around 1857 and 1899. The central glass-house is two stories tall, almost square, and features canted corners at the front. It is connected by low linear sections, each with approximately twenty glazing bays, to smaller end pavilions. The base is made of red brick, and the brick rear walls of the linking sections are part of the garden walls.
The central pavilion has a pyramidal roof with a narrow glazed upstand running along the ridge from front to rear, along with small bargeboards and an iron finial at the front. The end pavilions have gabled roofs, plain bargeboards, and iron finials. The front of the central pavilion, excluding the corners, is divided into seven vertical glazing bays, each with rectangular panes, and features a frieze of lunettes beneath the eaves. It has glazed double doors in the center. Each end pavilion has four glazing bays on the gable, with larger panes at the bottom, smaller panes above, and a lunette at each gable.
Inside, the greenhouses retain fittings for regulating ventilation and stands for plants. The central pavilion is supported by four Corinthian columns with cast iron spandrels and decorative bases, painted in blue and cream. The attached brick garden walls form a rectangle primarily built in Flemish bond brickwork, with Sussex bond on the south side. They have moulded stone coping and brick buttresses at regular intervals, varying in height from about ten feet on the sides to eight feet at the front. At the southeast corner, the wall meets the carriage arch leading to the main house.
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