Building record 7034/2/2 - Gardener's Cottage and wall attached to south west

Estate cottage built 1770 to 1830. Squared coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof.

{1} House. Late C18 and C19. Squared coursed limestone with Collyweston slate roof. Originally 2-unit plan. 2 storeys with attic. 3-window range of C19 casements under wood lintels. Central C19 part-glazed door is also under wood lintel. 3 hipped eaves dormers with casement windows. Ashlar gable parapets and brick and stone stacks at ends. C19 extension to rear. Interior not inspected. Wall attached to left of main front probably C18 restored C19 and C20. Red brick with brick header coping. Encloses part of kitchen garden together with kitchen garden walls and attached gates and gatepiers attached to south-west of the Orangery and to the norht-east of Gardeners' Cottage (q.v.) and kitchen garden walls approximately 50 metres south of Gardeners' Cottage (q.v.). Gardens probably originally laid out in about 1676 for James Tryon. (RCHM: An Inventory of Architectural Monuments in North Northamptonshire: p28)

{4} Undated photo;

<1> Clews Architects, 1980s, Database for Listing of Historic Buildings of Special Architectural Interest: Northamptonshire, 6/7 (checked) (Digital archive). SNN102353.

<2> List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest ("Greenback"), G11 (unchecked) (Catalogue). SNN41470.

<3> Royal Commission on The Historical Monuments of England, 1984, An Inventory of The Historical Monuments in The County of Northampton, p.28 (unchecked) (Series). SNN77384.

<4> Photographs of buildings in Bulwick (Photographs). SNN112158.

<5> RCHME, Undated, RCHME Inventory: Northamptonshire I (North-East), BF112010 (Archive). SNN113295.

<6> Historic England, Undated, BULWICK HALL, BULWICK, BF061851 (Archive). SNN114551.

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Dec 20 2022 3:23PM