Description

COUNTISBURY
SS 74 NE
4/23 Gardeners Cottage adjoining
- kitchen garden walls approximately
210 metres to north-west of
Glenthorne
GV II
Kitchen garden walls and adjoining cottage. Circa 1829, probably by the Revd. W S
Halliday, with some late C20 alterations to house. Uncoursed sand rubble kitchen
garden walls with some red brick dressings. House of uncoursed sand rubble with
some ashlar and gable-ended scantle-slate roof.
Plan: walls enclose a rectangular garden aligned approximately north-west/south-
east formerly with lean-to greenhouses on inside of north-east wall (see building
lines). Cottage attached to north-east wall at north corner; L-plan facing north-
east with lateral stone stack to rear of main range, and a porch in the angle of the
front wing. 2 storeys.
Walls: boarded doors in centre of north-east and buttress to north-east with brick
archway beneath and slate coping.
Cottage: symmetrical 2-window front with gabled wing projecting to right; first-
floor early C19 2-light wooden casements with octagonal pattern glazing bars and
flat stone-arched heads, left-hand window with small parapeted gable above. Ground-
floor canted bay to right of 1:3:1 lights with octagonal pattern glazing bars and
hipped slate roof. Inserted late C20 plate-glass ground-floor window to left.
Entrance in return of wing with porch in angle consisting of C19 boarded door with
stone lintel and coped stepped parpated gable above.
Interior of cottage not inspected.
This is the kitchen garden to Glenthorne (q.v), the house begun in 1829 for the
Revd. W. S. Halliday.

Listing NGR: SS7961849739

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26508017

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)