Description

COMBE FIELDS

147962 COMBE ABBEY
1641/6/10029 Kitchen garden and associated bothies,
22-AUG-01 gardener's cottage c130 metres north-
east of Combe Abbey

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Gardener's cottage, bothy and adjoining kitchen garden walls. 1863-5; by Eden Nesfield for the Earl of Craven; late C20 alterations. Red brick, with ashlar dressings and plain tile roofs. Domestic Revival style.
Cottage has 2 external side wall stacks with ashlar copings. 2 storeys, 2 bays, L-plan. Windows are wooden glazing bar casements, some renewed late C20. Garden front has projecting wing to left, half-hipped, with 3-light casement to ground floor, and 4-light casement above. In the return angle, a hipped porch with pointed arched doorway and original half-glazed door. Chimney to right has an inscribed plaque. Rear has central bay with hipped roof, lean-to porch and side door, flanked to left by gabled projecting wing, and to right by hipped wing. All have a single window on each floor. C20 single storey addition to north.
Bothy in similar style has 2-storey block to north and lower range, single storey plus attics, to south. Garden front has 2 windows to ground floor and central C20 lean-to addition. Above, 2-light casement in central hipped through-eaves dormer, flanked by prominent side wall stacks, that to right with an inscribed plaque. Rear has an off-centre door in an altered opening, flanked by a single 2-light casement to right, and 2 similar windows to left. Above, a large, hipped through-eaves dormer with a 4-light casement, and to right, a single small window. Lower range has to right a segment headed door flanked to left by a 3-light casement and beyond, 2 smaller 2-light casements. Above, to right, a 2-light casement in a hipped through-eaves dormer.
Garden walls, approx. 3m high, have stone and blue brick copings, and form a rectangular enclosure. North range has 2 doors, an inserted opening, and adjoining the bothy, a range of single storey lean-to buildings with slate roofs. Brackets on the north side formerly carrying line shafting. At the west
end, an arcade, now with inserted central opening, with alternating round and square granite piers. South side has an opening with square piers.

Listing NGR: SP4051379934

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26668830

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Recommended Books

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  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Herefordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Old House Handbook 2 Books Bundle Collection (Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair,Old House Eco Handbook: A Practical Guide to Retrofitting for Energy-Efficiency & Sustainability)