Ingmire Gardens And Associated Walled Garden

The property comprises a gardener’s cottage with an attached tower and screen wall, along with an associated walled garden. The tower likely dates to the early 19th century and may have been designed by George Webster of Kendal. The walled garden probably also originates from the same period, while the cottage itself was likely constructed in the mid-19th century. The building is constructed of roughly coursed mixed rubble with quoins, and has a slate roof.

The cottage has a double-fronted plan, aligned on a north-south axis and facing east. It features two storeys and one-and-a-half bays. The symmetrical facade has a square-headed doorway, slightly offset to the right, with a panelled door and shallow overlight. This is flanked by two large six-pane sashes on each floor, with a smaller six-pane sash above the doorway. A former doorway abutting the tower on the left-hand side has been blocked and replaced with a six-pane sash. All openings have thin plain surrounds and rectangular lintels. There is a ridge chimney offset to the left, and a gable chimney to the right, both corniced.

The tower, also of two storeys, rises above the cottage and is notable for its tall projecting parapet with stepped crenellation and a turret at the northwest corner. It has a six-pane sash offset to the left at ground floor, with a Gibbsian surround, and a similar six-pane sash at the first floor. Attached to the corner of the tower is a gabled screen wall, with the back of a garden alcove projecting on that side, under a monopitched roof.

The boundary wall of the walled garden, approximately 3 metres high, is constructed of slobbered rubble with stone slate coping. It has a straight east side linking the north corner of the cottage and the south corner of the tower, straight south and west sides, and a curved north side. Attached to the exterior of the wall section adjacent to the cottage is a single-storey lean-to outbuilding. The south half has windows and a stone slate roof, while the north half is a garage with a Welsh slate roof. A tall gateway, now with metal gates, sits alongside this.

The property forms a group with Ingmire Hall to the southwest.