Description

SLEDMERE GARTON HILL
SE 96 SE (east side)
Westfield
5/37 Monument Cottage

GV II

House. c1866. Probably by J Gibbs of Oxford for Sir Tatton Sykes 5th
Baronet. Gault brick in English garden wall bond with ashlar and red brick
dressings and Welsh slate roof. L-shaped on plan. Single-storey, single-
bay ranges with attics to gables. Chamfered plinth. Entrance to angle a
plank door within porch supported by piers with foliate capitals. Frieze.
To right a bay window with 3 2-pane sashes. Red brick band above. Above
porch an oculus. Ashlar copings to gable end supported by respond with
foliate capital . To left, gabled range: ground floor has 2 narrow 2-pane
sashes with quoined ashlar jambs and ashlar sills and lintels. First stage
red brick band. To gable a decorative shield. Then 2 trefoil-headed
windows in quoined ashlar surrounds under pointed arch of red brick. Ashlar
first floor copings to gables supported by similar responds. Rear stacks.
Decorative ridge tiles. Built as a caretaker's cottage for the Sir Tatton
Sykes Memorial (qv).

Listing NGR: SE9575761882

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26366700

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Recommended Books

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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  For the Record
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  Northumberland (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability
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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas