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Jupp and Mc Erlan’s report notes.
THE FIG HOUSE AND PALM HOUSE
`Fig house, about 24ft 6in by 2311,
planted with some well-grown Fig The Fig House
trees’, `Palm House, about 34ft 6in by
23ft’. [1902, Sales Particulars]. The stone pathway around the central bed is deteriorating particularly on the western
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These occupied the east range and a side. Some original cast iron material remains in situ.
crosswall, observaple in the central
bed, can be taken to represent the The central beds have been covered with gravel that may conceal more authentic
former division into the two houses. A material.
dense growth covers the remains of the
range including a sizeable Alderand
Ash. Clearance is needed for proper
observation of existing features but it
does appear however that like the
other glasshouses only the base
remains. The flooring looks intact and
some cast iron staging survives on
either side of the north doorway. The
external east wall is very low and
difficult to trace its places. The brick
built central bed is divided into 2 parts
corresponding within the division of
the range into a Fig house and a Palm
House.
The Fig House bed is 5.80m [19ft] long
and 3.20 [10ft 6 in] wide and stands
0.92m [3ft] high above the floor. It
terminates in a crosswall 1.84m [6ft]
high. The corridors the sides of the
beds are 4 foot inches wide. Originally
the Fig House would have been
portioned off by glass from the Palm
House and would have had
interconnecting doors on the side
corridors.