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Jupp and Mc Erlan’s report notes.
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WEST VINERY
`Vinery, about 32 ft long, planted with
young and thriving Muscat vines : [1902
Sales Particulars].
The west Vinery has a matching twin in The South West Vinery
the east Vinery. The latter survives This vinery could be restored to provide a symmetrical compositional match to the
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floor has partially collapse into an south-east vinery. The adjacent walls and steps have been rendered with concrete
render an this is deteriorating. The top of the wall should be checked to confirm
underground chamber below. It whether a lime capping is rquired.
measures internally 9.30m [30ft 6in] by
4.30m [14ft 8in]. The backwall, which it
shares with the fernery behind, is
approximately 4.37m [16ft 6in] high and
0.48 [1ft 6in] thick. There is a chimney
lined with an iron flue abutting the
west end of the wall which served a
stoke hole located in an underground
chamber below the fernery. There are
two doorways into vinery, 1 from the
exterior on the north-west -and the
other from the corner conservatory in
the north east. Against the south wall
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features. From comparison with the
east vinery these would seem to
function as bases for curving iron
spans which supported both the vines
and the roof. The south wall has 8
small arched openings for the roots of
the vine to grow in the vinery border
outside. The latter is approximately
10m long by 3.66m [12 ft] wide and has
low retaining walls on the east and
west. The 1905 article in the Gardener
Chronicle notes that it ‘was filled with
young healthy plants of Bowwood
Muscats’.

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