Description

TQ 75 NE BOXLEY THE STREET
(east side)

5/84 Watercress Cottage in garden of
Parsonage Farm, and wall
adjoining

G.V. II

Cottage. C18, built partly with re-used medieval stone. Ground
floor of north elevation of galletted stone with brick patches
and brick band, first floor of ashlared chalk lump. West gable
end tarred weatherboarding. Plain tile roof. 1½ storeys.
Roof hipped at east end and half-hipped at west end. 2 pro-
jecting brick stacks; towards west end of north elevation and
on east gable end. One 2-light casement on each floor in
west gable end. Small hipped dormer in east hip of roof. Plank
door and ground floor 2-light casement together under brick
relieving arch to right of stack in east gable end. Wall adjoining
cottage to north and south. Medieval. Now encloses north-east
corner of garden. To south forms rear wall of a weather boarded
barn. To north, runs approx. 6 yds north of cottage, then
returning approx. 3 yards to west. Approx. 10 feet high.
Galletted chalk lump with thick band of flint on tall galletted
chalk lump plinth.

Listing NGR: TQ7740158935

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26376371

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Recommended Books

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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Dorset (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
• 
  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)