Description

Charles Howitt architect. Built circa 1877. Large 10-bay

Lectern-shaped glass house which, unusually, rises over rear

wall to give buttressed clerestory; lower lean-to boiler house/store/office to rear (north) running full-length. Glass

house has polished red ashlar base and vertical supports

carrying roof timbers; door in either flank. Lean-to is

rubble-built with ashlar dressings, has 3 north-facing doors

and 4 small-paned sash windows, continuous roof covered with

graded slates. Modern boiler chimney. Interior of glass

house: continuous shelving along 3 sides, continuous

perimeter passageway around rectangular bedding area with red

ashlar wall; thin iron columns to bays support each roof

timber centrally.

Statement of Interest

B group with gardener's cottage.

External Links

• Historic Environment Scotland Listing
• Wikidata Q17798406

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Nottinghamshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)