Description

MEDMENHAM WESTFIELD COTTAGES
SU 78 SE
7/160 Nos. 3 and 4 (formerly listed
under Nos. 1-12)
21.10.77
GV II
Pair of semi-detached estate cottages. Circa 1900, probably by
Romaine Walker, for Mr. Robert Hudson of Danesfield. Lower storey
of red brick in English bond with dentil string arched up over doors,
and battered buttresses flanking front; upper storey rendered and
colourwashed; half-hipped plain-tile roof; central brick chimney with
off-set cap. One storey and attic, 2 bays. Ground floor has 4-light
barred wooden casements, the right window retaining leaded top-lights.
Chamfered and off-set brick sills, stop-chamfered wooden lintels. 3-light
attic casements in gabled dormers with richly carved and cusped
bargeboards, the left window with wooden glazing bars, the right with
later C20 plain glazing. Board doors to left and right, with moulded
brick surrounds and semi-circular brick arches over painted terracotta
tympana of local Medmenham ware. Tympana illustrate the labours of
the months March and April, No. 3 showing threshing with a flail,
No. 4 sowing. Doors retain original brass handles and numbers.
These 2 cottages are part of a set of 12.

Listing NGR: SU7985084572

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26453677

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Recommended Books

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)