Walls Enclosing Kitchen Gardens, With Gazebo And Cottage

CLOVELLY CLOVELLY COURT SS 32 SW

5/230 Walls enclosing kitchen gardens, with gazebo and cottage.

GV II

Walls enclosing kitchen gardens. C18 or C19. Granite rubble. Two large contiguars rectangular enclosures lying to south of Clovelly Court (q.v.) and the parish church (q.v.); at the south-west corner a cottage, and half way along north wall a dormer house. Walls generally about 4 m high to saddle-back coping formed in slate or stone. Wall to west, an approach path to church, has pair of doors to segmental head, and central cross wall dividing the two contained spaces has two pointed arch doorways. Adjoining the churchyard the coping in series of stops. On side towards house at half-way point a small summerhouse with glazed walls in small paned, with hipped slate roof on broad coved cornice; from its north side a wall runs up towards south front of house, flanking east side of churchyard. The long walk to the field away from the house is swept up at the centre to a short length of horizontal coping, and a small door gives access to the east half of the enclosure. The former gardeners cottage partly restored part rubble, to slate roof to church part double gate, deep set door and small margin bar sash; towards gardens 2+1 windows in 2 storeys; small-pane casements left, margin bar sashes, one in half-dormer, right. Outer wall 1+2 windows, and lower roof over continuation of main wall flush with front of cottage. An important large-scale adjacent to the main house.

Listing NGR: SS3098525061