Description

GOUDHURST BEDGEBURY CROSS TQ 73 SW (west side) 9/78 Tower Cottage GV II Estate cottage. Circa 1850. Red brick and sandstone with slated roof. L-shaped with tower on outside of return angle. One storey and attic on plinth with stone quoins to roof with kneelered parapet gables and projecting and offset stack to right with octagonal moulded paired flues. Two moulded gabled half dormers and unappropriate central flush skylight. Two 2-light mullioned stone windows with label hoods and central glazed door in kneelered gabled porch with four centred arched surround and labelled hood. Recessed at right a 2-storey tower, offset on ground floor, with pyramidal roof and narrow lancet-like lights. Rear wing with moulded door and window surrounds with Nos 2 and 3 on the opposite side of the Cross, the best of the group of estate cottages here built for the Bedgebury Estate. The architect may have been Alexander Roos (c.1840) or R C Carpenter (c.1854), both of whom worked on Bedgebury Park at those dates.

Listing NGR: TQ7167434686

External Links

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Recommended Books

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  Gwent/Monmouthshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of Wales)
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  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Suffolk: East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)