Building record 1225300000 - HEUSDEN COTTAGE

Grade II. Circa 1860 and similar in style to and associated with St Hubert's House, St Hubert's Lane [CASS 1225700000]. Stock brick; stone dressings with recessed jointing; slate roof with fancy ridge tiles. Square in plan with square castellated turret at one corner. Fancy brick stringcourse at springing of first floor windows and at first floor level. Two storeys. First-floor windows with semicircular tops. Ground floor with modern porch, 2 small windows in turret side and, on entrance front, a 3-light bay window (B1).
A lead rainwaterhead can be seen on the building bearing the date 1860. Heusden Cottage shows a quality in both design and build, suggesting that it served the 'upmarket' entrance on Oxford Road which would be used by important visitors coming from London. By 1899 Heusden Cottage had ceased to be used as a lodge for St. Huberts however it remained part of Colonel Le Poer Trench’s St. Huberts estate since the 1910 Valuation Survey shows it was occupied rent free by an estate employee. See report for detailed documentary evidence, description and photograph (B2).