Description

SJ 3231-3331
11/128

WHITTINGTON C.P.
ELLESMERE ROAD (south side)
Garden Cottage with attached kitchen garden wall and outbuildings

II

Shown on O.S. Map as Halston Gardens.
Gardener's cottage with attached kitchen garden wall and associated outbuildings.
Late C18 with minor later alterations. Cottage: red brick; graded
slate roof with external end stacks. 2 storeys and attic; 3 bays. 16-
paned glazing bar sashes on each floor to left and right of central 6-panel
door (top panels now glazed) with rectangular barred overlight. Two C19
gabled dormers to top of roof slope. Single-storey brick lean-to to right
has 16-paned glazing bar sash window to front. Situated at north-east
corner of kitchen garden wall enclosing rectangular area of approximately
100 x 70m. Red brick with stone coping, chamfered on east and west sides
with ball finials to corners. Main entrance on east: sandstone ashlar
gate piers with moulded plinths and capping surmounted by ball finials.
Entrance on south through moulded stone doorway with eared architrave; similar
entrance to west with coping ramped up around doorway and ball finials.
Plain segmental-headed doorway towards west end on north. Buttresses to
outside on east. Range of contemporary lean-to outbuildings attached to
outside on north has mid-C19 casements (some leaded) with mixture of gauged
heads and stone lintels and cills. 2 heating flues and cast-iron pump
attached towards east end. Interior of cottage: has central straight-
flight staircase. Contemporary wooden fireplaces to ground-floor rooms,
left Adam style and right with Greek-key pattern.

Listing NGR: SJ3343131840

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26305868

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