The Garden House
THE GARDEN HOUSE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096089
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-2003
- List Entry Name:
- The Garden House
- Statutory Address:
- THE GARDEN HOUSE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1096089
- Date first listed:
- 14-Apr-2003
- List Entry Name:
- The Garden House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE GARDEN HOUSE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE GARDEN HOUSE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Central Bedfordshire (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Battlesden
- National Grid Reference:
- SP9586929081
Details
1846/0/10008
14-APR-03
BATTLESDEN
The Garden House
GV
II
Estate Gardener's house to Battlesden House (1860-64 by G. H. Stokes, advised by Sir Joseph Paxton; demolished 1880s) c.1860. Brick with exposed timber-framing. Old tile hipped and gabled roofs. Wooden casements and sashes. Brick corbelled chimneys. Picturesque free gothic style.
EXTERIOR: FACADE has main range, steeply hipped at both ends and with tall brick end chimneystacks with dentilled and corbelled caps. Central bay advanced under steep pitched gable with fretted bargeboards, central casement with diamond mullions to gable above similar window offset by main door with 2 glazed panes. To right, a 5-light canted bay window with diamond mullions below casement dormer with diamond mullions and fretted bargeboards. To left, 3-light diamond mullion casement to ground floor with similar dormer above. To far left, advanced range has half-hipped gable with fretted bargeboards, brick and framing to top, sleeping porch in a Swiss vernacular style with wooden posts and solid balustrade punctuated by cross and egg motif, above external stair with similar balustrade and recessed secondary entrance. REAR elevation rendered with central advanced gable with diamond mullion casement above 4-over-8 pane sash. Multi-pane sash windows to single storey outshuts at rear and diamond mullion casement to rear of sleeping porch bay.
INTERIOR: Not inspected.
SUBSIDIARY: Attached to right side is approx. 200m stretch of brick former kitchen garden wall with blue brick curved copings, attached to rear of which is single storey brick shed. To right and extending in front of the cottage is a shorter stretch of wall broken by brick piers capped with stone ball finials.
HISTORY: Probably built as a Head Gardener's house for Battlesden House and part of a former kitchen garden.
Group value with the Grade I St. Peter and All Saints Church (q.v.), immediately behind the garden wall, as well as with the 2 Battlesden Lodges (q.v.), built c.1860 by G.H.Stokes. Located within the Grade II Registered Battlesden Park.
A c.1860 large gardener's house built for Battlesden House with a picturesque free gothic facade and good group value.
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 490054
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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