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

The Gardener's House and Hoddom Gardens Cottage, located in the walled garden of Hoddom Castle, were likely designed by Wardrop and Anderson around 1886. This picturesque single-storey and attic gardener's house features jerkin roofs, garden walls, and a row of cottages or potting sheds.

The house is constructed from squared, stugged, and snecked rubble with ashlar dressings. The south elevation has three bays, with an advanced gable on the left and an original glazed timber porch in the re-entrant angle. To the right, there is an attic window with a jerkin dormer head. Most windows have small-paned upper sashes, and the projecting eaves feature semi-circular framing on brackets. The house has stacks with grouped octagonal flues and a slate roof.

The garden walls are built of rubble and topped with ashlar coping, extending in an L-plan to the south and east of the Gardener's House. Hoddom Gardens Cottage, which is linked to the north wall of the Gardener's House, along with the adjoining potting sheds, are all made of rubble with ashlar dressings and chamfered margins. They have a monopitch roof with bracketed eaves and paired octagonal flues over the east garden wall-head. The cottage features boarded doors with fanlights and sash windows with four-pane glazing. The cottage has a slate roof, while the sheds have corrugated iron roofs, with the shed nearest to the north being in a ruinous condition.