Kitchen Garden Wall And Cottage

EPSOM WILMER HATCH LANE 1. 5385 (east side, off) TQ 2058 Kitchen Garden Wall and SP/805 Cottage II

1. Kitchen garden wall and gardener's cottage. Late C18, with later alterations. Red brick in Flemish bond with blue brick headers, slate roof. The 2-storey, 3-bay cottage is towards the east end of the northern wall of the rectangular garden wall. The wall is approx 3 metres high with brick butresses and stone coping. The cottage has a plinth and blocked central doorway in round-arched niche linked by impost band to flanking niches containing 12-pane windows with stone cills. Smaller 6-pane windows above, central one blocked, all openings with flat brick arches. Pediment with deep board at base supported on consoles blocked oculus in typanum and oversailing eaves. Lateral stacks. The house which the kitchen garden served is Woodcote Park House (RAC, qv.) which was built in 1753 by Isaac Ware.

Listing NGR: TQ2102061000