Description

BENGEO RURAL MARSHALL'S LANE
TL 31 NW
(Southwest side)
Sacombe Green
4/4 The Garden Cottage
- and Garden Walls at
Coldharbour Wood
- II

Former kitchen garden wall. c.1785 for T. Caswall of Coldharbour (not
listed). Red brick with some stone dressings. About 140m x 75m, roughly
rectangular on plan with a section cut out to SW. About 3m to 4m high.
Corner piers, some with stone caps. Pilaster buttresses. Wall rounded
inwards at head to brick coping. Principal opening to SE retains one
stone blocked pier. Plank door to SW with projecting brick surround with
gauged brick flat arched head, stone impost blocks. Plank door to NW
with inner blocked round arched head. A section of original wall extends
into garden from NE side. Stock brick spur wall to SW. In SW inset of
wall is early C19 gardener's cottage. Ground floor white brick with a
red brick band to first floor stock brick. Slate roof. 2 storeys. 2
windows. Central entrance in later gabled porch. Flanking blocked round
headed openings, first floor openings empty. Extruded end stacks. 2 sash
windows to rear. 1 storey outbuildings to left, 2 bays of stock brick
with a door and a 9 pane sash with round heads. 3 bays of C18 red brick
with round headed openings, some round headed openings to rear. Interior
not inspected. Coldharbour House and this wall were built following
demolition of the early Sacombe House and its embattled garden wall
which was part of C. Bridgeman's laying out of the grounds c.1715. The
house was subsequently demolished following building of the present
Sacombe House (q.v., Sacombe Civil Parish) in 1802. (P. Willis,
Charles Bridgeman, 1977: RCHM Typescript).

Listing NGR: TL3484218875

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26625531

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Recommended Books

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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  Suffolk: West: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Maintaining and Repairing Old Houses: A Guide to Conservation, Sustainability and Economy
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)