Building record 1423700000 - Botany House and Flint House, Bolter End Lane

Botany House and Flint House are at the focal point of the important grouping of buildings at the south end of the conservation area. Of knapped flint with blocked brick dressings and tiled roofs with alternating bands of squared and fish-scale ends. These features are repeated in the surrounding terraces and create cohesion within the group. Botany House and Flint House are made distinctive by further features such as the height of 2 storeys, the positioning of the building, tall window bays, large double hung windows and finely knapped and coursed flint. The polychromatic wall surrounding Botany House also lends distinction, laid in red, yellow and vitrified brick with flint diapers. On the east elevation is a large eliptical arch over a carriageway, said to have been intended to form the gatehouse to the estate of Frederick Burnham, a brickmaker at Huckenden Farm at Cadmore End Common. A significant building within the Conservation Area of Wheeler End Common (B1).