Building record 1288300000 - LITTLE STATES & HILLSIDE

Grade II. Former laundry, now 2 houses. Circa 1898-1900 with later internal alterations. By Romaine Walker for Mr. Robert Hudson of Medmenham Abbey and Danesfield. Lower storey of dressed chalk blocks, upper storey roughcast and whitewashed with wooden bressumer, plain tile roof, brick chimneys with 'V'pilasters and off-set heads. Picturesque. 2 storeys and attic, approximately 6 bays. Leaded windows with ovolo-moulded mullions, chalk to ground floor, wood to upper storeys. 2 centre bays are slightly advanced and have gables overhanging on coved jetty with moulded bressumer. Below bressumer is a long almost continuous strip of 24 transomed lights, divided into 3 groups of 8 by narrow recessed panels. 3-light attic casements in gables, the left altered. Altered ground floor windows below with paired leaded casements in wooden frames. Outer bays have irregular ground floor windows, and gabled dormer with paired leaded casement to right. 2 panelled doors in moulded and stopped chalk surrounds with 4-centred arches and carved spandrels. (Country Life, 22nd September 1900) (B1).