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Laid out over the former kitchen garden of Bowling Green House with Holly Lodge, which was rebuilt sometime around 1904, on the site of the gardener’s cottage. According to the Putney Heath Conservation Area Appraisal and Management Strategy: “The most notable historic feature of this character area is the former kitchen garden wall that runs from Portsmouth Road down Garden Close as well as around no. 5; to the rear of Holly Lodge. It also forms the boundary between Garden Close and Paddock Way. An original opening gave access through the wall to the paddock and still exists to the rear of no. 5. This wall is an important historic feature that contributes to the character of the conservation area.” It adds: “Garden Close is the work Colin Keith Adamson, a local architect who bought the land in the 1960s to build a house for himself along with three others before selling some of the land to international architect, Tom Jestico, who also built a house along similar designs for himself. The bungalows were built to be private, discreet and at one with their gardens. They have low pitched green coloured roofs to blend into the landscape and glass walls and doors to seamlessly link house to garden.”
