Description

ST22NW CHEDDON FITZPAINE CP
HESTERCOMBE

5/51 Barn complex and waterwheel
abutting East side of Dutch
garden at Hestercombe

GV II

Barn complex including pumping house and waterwheel. Circa 1904-9 altered mid C20. By Edwin Lutyens for the Hon EWB
Portman. Local slate ragstone laid in courses where visible from gardens (qv) of Hestercombe House (qv), otherwise
random rubble, pantiled barn rest double Roman tiles. Plan: barn lying North-South set in to hillside at North end,
West front forming boundary of Dutch garden, waterwheel on North East front, West wing, additional buildings not of
special interest, included due to alteration. North gable end, single story plank door with divided leaded -light
above, abutting wall of Dutch garden swept up to West. South front: 2 storey, sepaental headed 4-light mullioned and
transomed leaded windows with wmoirs, wooden lintel to altered opening below, West wing altered. Overshot cast iron
waterwheel, in poor condtion at tine of survey (April 1984) in North East corner. Interior not seen. This building
probably included the machinery for feeding the water gardens from the higher pond about 10 metres to the North.

Listing NGR: ST2425728703

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26594698

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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)