Description

MADRON
SW 42 NW
9/179 The Head Gardener's Cottage
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GV II
Gardener's or bailiff's house. Circa mid C19. Granite rubble with granite
dressings. Hipped scantle slate roof with projecting eaves and lean-to scantle slate
roof to verandah. Brick chimneys over the side walls.
Plan: 2 room plan house with central entrance hall, open verandah at front and at
either side (later enclosed at left-hand side) and later C19 kitchen wing at right
angles behind the right-hand room. Gothic style windows.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3 window east front with central doorway. Original
Gothic style door and 2-light casements with Gothic style heads. In front of the
house and returning at either side is an open verandah carried on wooden posts over a
granite kerb. Original skylights over the ground floor windows with lead-sheathed
glazing bars.
Interior: not inspected.

Listing NGR: SW4440929594

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26436443

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Recommended Books

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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014
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  Somerset: North and Bristol: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (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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  Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North (Pevsner Architectural Guides / Buildings of England)
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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)