Building record 1287503000 - OLMEDA & THE GATE COTTAGE

Grade II. Pair of estate cottages, formerly serving as lodge to Medmenham Abbey. Circa 1900. By Romaine Walker for Mr. Robert Hudson. Lower storey of dressed chalk blocks, part whitewashed, with ovolo-moulded chalk mullion windows; upper storey roughcast and whitewashed with wooden bressumer and wood mullion windows. Plain tile roof, ornamental wooden bargeboards with remains of twisted wooden finials, brick chimneys with 'V' pilasters and off-set heads. Picturesque L-plan building of 1½ storeys. Asymmetrical W. front of 2½ bays has gable to left of centre with upper storey jettied on brackets. Irregular leaded casements to ground floor, 5-light canted oriel with leaded lights in gable. Right bay has board and stud door in moulded and stopped chalk surround with 4-centred arch and carved spandrels. Right gable end jettied with oriel window. Jettied rear wing with similar casements and door, gabled semi-dormer, and C20 conservatory at right end (B1).