NHER 33510 (Building record) - Dereham Cottage and garden, Exton's Road

Garden noted by Norfolk Historic Gardens Survey, not graded but 'of particular interest'. Part of larger late 19th century garden surrounding two houses; unaltered since 1905. Fine specimen of Arbutus unedo flanks the entrance path; low box hedges define paths and beds at rear, box hedges form serpentine design to southeast. Paths of blue brick edgings. Small brick shed to southwest, revolving summerhouse to northeast was moved from former plot to north.
See (S1) for full details.
E. Rose (NLA) 11 March 1998.

The detached house of grey brick which stands at the centre of this garden is visible on the First Edition Ordnance Survey map so had been built before 1886. The house is double-fronted with canted bays and a porch between. It has a hipped slate roof. [1] thinks that the house is of Woolpit bricks.
This house was built in a plot laid out as part of the Goodwin's Fields development, a proposal which aimed to establish a garden suburb for some of the more affluent residents of Lynn. It appears that there was not sufficient interest from developers so Charles Goodwin was forced to lay out and sell many of the plots as gardens and pleasure grounds, planted up and provided with summerhouses for enjoyments as retreats, rather than as homes in which to live.
See (S2) for further information about the Goodwin's Fields development.
See also (S3).
A. Cattermole (King's Lynn UAD), 9 May 2019.