Description

MEDMENHAM SCHOOL LANE
SU 88 SW
8/157 Old School Cottage
(formerly listed as Cottage
adjoining and East of Medmenham
C. of E. Primary School)
29.10.76
GV 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).

Listing NGR: SU8080484858

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26418550

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