Gardener's House And Hoddom Gardens Cottage, Walled Garden, Hoddom Castle

Probably Wardrop and Anderson, circa 1886. Picturesque single

storey and attic gardener's house with jerkin roofs, garden

walls and row of cottages/potting sheds.

HOUSE: Squared, stugged and snecked rubble with ashlar

dressings. S elevation: 3 bays, advanced gable left, original

glazed timber porch in re-entrant angle, attic window right

with jerkin dormerhead. Windows mostly with small-paned upper

sashes. Projecting eaves with semi-circular framing on

brackets. Stacks with grouped octagonal flues; slate roof.

GARDEN WALLS: rubble-built and ashlar-coped, extending in

L-plan to S and to E of Gardener's House.

Hoddom Gardens Cottage (linked to N wall of Gardener's House)

and adjoining potting sheds all rubble with ashlar dressings

and chamfered margins, monopitch roof with bracketted eaves

and paired octagonal flues over E (garden) wall-head; boarded

doors with fanlights; sash windows with 4-pane glazing;

cottage slate-roofed, sheds with corrugated iron, shed

nearest N ruinous.