Listed Building: GARDENERS COTTAGE ADJOINING KITCHEN GARDEN WALLS APPROXIMATELY 210 METRES TO NORTH WEST OF GLENTHORNE (1213083)

Grade II
Authority Historic England
Volume/Map/Item 1549, 4, 23
Date assigned 24 November 1988
Date last amended
Date revoked
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

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Grid reference Centred SS 79626 49710 (66m by 71m)
Map sheet SS74NE
Civil Parish COUNTISBURY, NORTH DEVON, DEVON

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