Bury Hill Gardens

MILTON STREET, WESTCOTT 1. 1049 Bury Hill Gardens TQ 14 NW 6/64 28.11.51.

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1. Formerly Orangery and Stables to Old Bury Hill House. This is a long low building of which the front portion facing south was the Orangery of Bury Hill House and the back was the stables with the coach-man's or bailiff's house at the east end. The Orangery runs nearly the whole width of the kitchen garden and both are now a Nursery garden. The Orangery is a beautiful mid C18 building of 1 storey built of red brick. Stuccoed cornice and brick parapet. It consists of 9 round-headed windows in the centre and at each end a canted bay of 3 more similar windows. Each window is slightly recessed. Tiled roof with hips over the bays and glass let in over the remainder. The canted bay at the east end has been converted into a dwelling. The portion of the building on the north which forms the Stables has a recessed centre of 9 round-headed arches and wings of 2 similar arches each. The wings have 2 storeys and 2 windows each, a string course, cornice and parapet, also pilasters flanking the windows and forming an arch over each 1st floor window. In the centre portion pilasters flank the arches which contain lunette windows of 3 lights at 1st floor level. The wall beneath these windows is blank except for 2 doors. Cornice and parapet over the centre portion. Tiled roof with 1 dormer at west end. The arches flanking the centre arch contain no lunette window but a round-headed recess. Western end of stables converted into a dwelling with brick projection of 1 storey. At the east end of the stables is a contemporary house of 2 storeys and 3 windows. Red brick. Stringcourse, cornice and parapet. Glazing bars intact. Round-headed doorway on northern side. Contemporary doorcase on eastern side: segmental pediment on consoles, with carved pilasters flanking doorway; taken from a house in Surbiton.

Listing NGR: TQ1483248744