The Head Gardeners' Cottages
THE HEAD GARDENERS' COTTAGES
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143583
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Head Gardeners' Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- THE HEAD GARDENERS' COTTAGES
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1143583
- Date first listed:
- 07-Sept-1988
- List Entry Name:
- The Head Gardeners' Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE HEAD GARDENERS' COTTAGES
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 HEAD GARDENERS' COTTAGES
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- District:
- Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
- Parish:
- Madron
- National Grid Reference:
- SW 45052 31296
Details
MADRON SW 43 SE 7/114 The Head Gardeners' cottages - GV II Terrace of 3 gardeners' cottages, now 1 house. Circa early to mid C19. Brick laid to Flemish bond. Dry slate roof with brick chimneys over the gable ends and party wall. Plan: 3 similar shallow double depth cottages each with 1 room at the front and entrances at the rear, the front facing into the walled garden. Exterior: 2 storeys. Regular 3 window south garden front with possibly original 12- pane 2-light casments. Circa late C19 6-pane horned sash to first floor left. Interior: not inspected. These cottages adjoin kitchen garden walls which were built in 1814 when Trengwainton House was enlarged by Sir Rose Price, a West Indian sugar planter. In 1867 the property was bought by T S Bolitho, a banker, whose family had been involved in Cornish mining. The 1897 remodelling and extensions were carried out by his son T R Bolitho; the architect is not known. T R Bolitho and the head gardener, A Creek, with advice and help from J C Williams of Caerhays and P D Williams of Lanarth, created a new garden with shrubs from New Zealand, Australia, Chile and the Himalayas. In 1929 G Johnstone of Trewtihen and Lawrence Johnston of Hidcote offered Bolitho a share in Kingdon Ward's 1927-8 plant hunting expedition to Assam and Burma. Seeds collected on this expedition are the basis of the fine rhododendron collection at Trengwainton. Source: M Trinick, The National Trust's Cornish Gardens.
Listing NGR: SW4452431472
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 70459
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Trinick, M, Cornish Gardens, ()
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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