Garden Wall Attached Summerhouse And Privy At Kelmscott Manor

The garden wall with an attached summerhouse and privy at Kelmscott Manor dates from the mid to late 18th century. The wall is made of uncoursed limestone rubble with coping, featuring ramps near the corners on the west side, extending to the north side and the northern part of the east side. The south side and southern part of the east side are constructed from squared and coursed rubble, while a low stone wall with iron railings completes the remainder of the west side. This structure encloses a garden area that measures approximately 70 by 40 meters, shaped like a parallelogram.

The principal entrance is located at the south end of the east side, featuring a gateway with a raised narrow gable along the wall's axis. This gateway includes a plank door set in a moulded surround, with what appear to be reused pointed strap hinges. Just a few meters north of this point, where the regularly coursed stonework transitions to rubble, stands a polygonal summerhouse, likely from the late 19th century. The summerhouse is open to the garden side and supported by wooden posts, topped with a stone slate roof and a stone ball finial.

At the south-west corner of the wall, immediately north-west of the service range of Kelmscott Manor, is a privy, probably built in the early 19th century. This privy is made of rendered uncoursed limestone rubble, scored to mimic dressed stone, and features a pyramidal stone slate roof with overhanging eaves and a stone ball finial. It has a square plan with a rounded south-west corner, a boarded door with a bracketed lean-to hood on the east side, and a leaded latticed window on the north side. Inside, it contains a triple-seater earth closet.