Description

SAFFRON WALDEN

TL5338 BRIDGE END GARDENS
669-1/1/356 Kitchen Garden wall

GV II

Garden wall on 3 sides of old kitchen garden comprising N
boundary wall of Bridge End Gardens. 2 lengths, SE-NW each of
50m, linking length SW-NE 73m, 3.07m high. Date plaque 1840-G
(Gibson). Red brick in Flemish bond. NW wall has some burnt
bricks included. Exterior pilaster buttresses. SW wall has
brick semicircular coping with lower side roll and cavetto
each side. Simple wide gateway with plain brick piers and
adjacent pedestrian doorway, both now with C20 board and
battened doors. Ground rises to NW and wall shaped up towards
NW end. NW wall: plain brick coping with square set brick
dentils. Date plaque central on internal face. NE end has some
C20 rebuilding with an internal ramped buttress. SW end has
C20 red brick lean to shed in internal angle with SW wall,
corrugated asbestos cement roof, boarded and battened door. NE
wall: similar to NW wall but brick dentils set diagonally.
Wall shaped down 4 times to accommodate hill slope. S end has
C20 flat roofed Fletton brick shed within garden.

Listing NGR: TL5353038871

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26570270

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Recommended Books

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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects by Harwood, Richard (2012) Paperback