Garden House

Garden House is a house that has been converted into a restaurant. It was built around 1812 for the blind philosopher John Gough and has seen later additions and alterations. The building is constructed of rubble with incised stucco on the ground floor and wet-dashed finish on the first floor. It features an eaves cornice and a graduated slate roof that includes three skylights, along with rendered end chimneys. The structure is symmetrical, standing two storeys high with three bays. A verandah with a tented lead roof is supported by an ornate cast- and wrought-iron arcade. The central entrance consists of a panelled door topped by a semicircular stained-glass fanlight set in a corniced wooden surround with panelled pilasters, flanked by tripartite sash windows. The first-floor windows are sashes set within wooden architraves.