Gazebo, Westbury Court Gardens

The gazebo at Westbury Court Gardens is a garden house built probably between 1715 and 1725 for Maynard Colchester II. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, with ashlar stone and a slate roof. The structure is square and single-storey, featuring one window on each facade. The entrance front faces the main garden and has a brick plinth topped with stone capping and rusticated square corner piers.

A tall doorway is accessed by four stone steps with swept wrought-iron handrails. The doorway has rusticated stone jambs with outside Corinthian pilasters, the lower third of which is infilled with reeds. The jambs have moulded capitals situated below the capitals of the pilasters, and the opening has a semi-circular head with a projecting keystone. Impost blocks are present on the pilasters.

A moulded cornice encircles the building, breaking forward at the corner piers and at the pilasters and keystone of the doorway. The door is glazed above two fielded panels, having been renewed to an old pattern in the 1970s. Above the cornice is a plain brick parapet with simply moulded stone coping that sweeps up slightly to the corner stone piers, which are capped with ball finials. The roof is hipped.

The windows have moulded stone surrounds with semi-circular heads and dropped keystones, featuring fixed sashes. The gazebo is connected to a garden wall at two corners by the road. It was built as part of the Dutch water garden for Westbury Court, which has since been demolished.