Building record 1288401000 - OLD SCHOOL COTTAGE

Grade II. House, formerly that of school-mistress. Circa 1899. By Romaine Walker, for Mr. Robert Hudson of Medmenham Abbey and Danesfield. Lower storey of dressed chalk blocks with sand-stone dressings and ovolo-moulded mullion windows; upper storey roughcast and colourwashed with wooden bressumer, the gable ends jettied on curved wooden brackets. Plain tile roof, wooden bargeboards, brick chimneys to left and rear with 'V' pilasters and off-set heads. Picturesque. 1½ storeys 3 bays. Outer bays have 4-light windows toground floor. Centre has panelled door in 4-centred arch with curved spandrels, and 2-storey gabled porch. Porch has upper storey jettied on shaped brackets and small modillion cornice, 3-light wooden casement to first floor, and turned wooden balusters to side walls of ground floor. Other 3-light leaded casements to first floor in gable ends. (Country Life, 22nd September 1900) (B1).