Building record 1058900000 - MOAT COTTAGE AND 1 MOAT LANE

Grade II. House and cottage, originally 3 cottages. Dated H de R 1876 on plaques, extended c.1970-80. Ground floor is of red brick, first floor has half-timbering, part coloured, with whitewashed roughcast infill. Hipped tile roof with some fishscale patterning, rebuilt brick chimneys. 2 storeys, the upper jettied on brackets, with moulded bressumer. 3 original bays, the outer bays slightly projecting and gabled with canted bay windows to ground floor and 3-light casements to first floor. Centre bay has 3-light transomed casement to left of half-glazed door, both with cambered heads, and 4-light casement above, the top breaking slightly into the eaves. Flanking porches with single lights to front. Left porch has entry altered to casement. Right porch altered to link with C20 matching gabled extension. Part of a picturesque group of estate cottages built around The Green, now Recreation Ground, for Hannah de Rothschild in style influenced by nearby work of George Devey at Ascott (B1).