Building record 0202003000 - The Close and The Coach House, Sheep Street

Grade II. 2 houses, former coach house and stables for Winslow Hall. C18, altered. Brick, much patched, moulded wooden eaves cornice, old tile roof hipped to road. One storey and attic. Irregular E front has C20 metal casements to left, 3 to ground floor and 2 in hipped dormers. Entry to The Close at rear. Garage doors to left of centre with smaller hipped domer above. The Coach House, to right, as 3 wooden windows with barred casements, and 3 hipped dormers, 2 with paired barred casements, centre one with half-glazed door, originally entry to hayloft. Original arched carriage entry now has C20 panelled door with flanking lights and large radiating fanlight. Later block attached to NE corner has 2 leaded windows with segmental heads to S and 3 hipped semi-dormers to E. Gable to street has eleborate cast iron bracket (B11).
The courtyard is a small, irregular area enclosed by an extension of the coach house to the west, small brick outbuildings to the east and north, and a brick wall with arched opening to the south. One of the main features within the garden is a series of enclosed terraces that step down from the western boundary wall and project into the garden. Historic map evidence suggests that these terraces occupy the footprint of former, early 20th century glasshouses and utilise the original brick dwarf walls which would have supported the glass structure and frame. The northern lawn. This is bound to the west by a Grade II listed brick wall and to the north and east by modern fencing. The northern and eastern property boundaries date between 1959 and 1978, separating the modern garden from the much larger, former walled garden. A hedge runs partway along the eastern boundary of the lawn, and to the west are located several fruit trees. The western wall of the garden is Grade II listed and runs the full length of the garden, turning 90 degrees to meet the north-east corner of the Coach House. It is contemporary with the construction of Winslow Hall in the early 18th century. The wall is a mix of bond types, primarily in Flemish bond with English bond towards the top and capped with plain coping bricks. A number of espalier trees have been trained against the wall (B15).