Building record 1287800000 - KINGSWOOD & LT KINGSWOOD

Grade II. Two houses, built as house for Mr. Hudson's agent. Circa 1897-1900, slightly altered and extended later C20. By Romaine Walker. Dressed chalk with stone mullion windows, upper storey on garden side roughcast and whitewashed with wooden mullion and transom windows. Plain tile roof, brick chimneys with 'V' pilasters and off-set heads. 2 storeys and attic, the upper storey on garden side jettied with wooden bressumer on curved wooden brackets. Approximately 6 bays of irregular leaded casements, those to ground floor left and to first floor with blind boxes. 2 later C20 flat-roofed dormers in outer bays. 2 centre bays have deeper projection to first floor with elaborately cusped wooden bargeboards to 'M' gable. This projection was formerly an arcaded balcony but has been altered mid C20 with leaded glazing and central extension on posts. Board door below in moulded and stopped 4-centred stone arch. Lower bay set back to left with half-hipped roof and later half-timbered extension. 1923 2-bay extension to right, of whitewashed roughcast with stone mullion and transom bow window to gabled right bay. Rear has flanking gabled bays with bargeboards and finials, and bridge to central first floor porch. Porch has coped gable with moulded kneelers, door in 4-centred stone arch with Tudor hoodmould and lozenge panel above. Interior: small first floor hall in late medieval style, with moulded panelling, coved wooden canopy over 4-centred stone fireplace, and arch-braced roof trusses with ornamental richly moulded wooden surround and good local tiles. (Country Life, 1900 p. 204) (B1).