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

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