Building record 1059800000 - 8 AND 9 RECREATION GROUND

Grade II. Pair of cottages. Dated H de R 1876 on plaque. Red brick with whitewashed roughcast and half-timbering to first floor of left bay and altered tile-hanging to right side. Hipped tile roof with some fishscale patterning, central brick chimney, part rebuilt, another chimney to left side. 2 storeys, 2 asymmetrical bays. Left bay is gabled with first floor jettied on brackets, canted bay window to ground floor and 3-light wooden casement to first floor. Porch to left has single light to front and entry to side. Right bay has cross casement with segmental head to ground floor, and 2-light eaves-breaking casement above. Whitewashed terracotta date plaque below upper left- hand window has flanking herringbone panels. Symmetrical to Nos. 13 and 14, similar to Nos. 4 and 5. Part of a group of picturesque estate cottages built for Hannah de Rothschild in style influenced by work of George Devey at Ascott (B1).