The Garden House

The Garden House is a Grade II listed estate cottage, likely built in the early to mid-19th century. It is situated next to the kitchen gardens that once occupied the site of the Fountain Garden, and it faces the drive created in the late 18th century as part of landscaping by Thomas Emes.

The exterior features roughly coursed and squared green local stone, topped with a slate roof. The building has two storeys and includes a long gabled range at the rear with a hipped block at the front. The entrance is located in the gable end of the cross-range facing north and features a chamfered four-centred archway. To the side of the entrance, there is a two-light mullioned window set in a splayed architrave, complete with drop-ended hood moulds on both floors. The gable is coped and corbelled out on moulded kneelers. Similar architectural details are found in the return elevations of the front range, with upper windows located in gabled dormers. The front elevation also has windows with hood moulds on the ground floor and coped gabled dormers above.

The Garden House is recognized as an example of an estate cottage in an outstanding setting.