Description

TQ 53 NW
7/495

SPELDHURST
THE GREEN (west side), LANGTON GREEN
Firtree Cottage

GV
II

Former cottage, now office of the Institute of Cultural Affairs. Early/mid
C19. Ground floor level is red-brown coloured Flemish bond brick with dentil
cornice, timber-framed above and hung with peg-tile. Brick stack and
chimneyshaft with divided flues. Peg-tile roof.

Plan: L-plan house facing east south east, say east, onto The Green. 2-room
plan front block, the left (south) room being the front room of a crosswing
projecting one-room to rear. Axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces
between the 2 blocks. Main entrance in rear angle of the 2 wings and a
secondary one on the south side towards the rear end.

2 storeys.

Exterior: Irregular 2-window front. Right windows are C20 casements with
glazing bars, lower one under low brick segmental arch. Left windows are C19
20-pane sashes, lower one broken forward in a shallow brick bay. Roof is
gable-ended to right and gable-ended crossroof to left. Left end also has C20
casements with glazing bars. Single first floor window towards rear with
small gable over and below it a gabled porch containing C20 part-glazed door
(similar door to rear).

Interior: No exposed carpentry. Roof not inspected.

Firtree Cottage was probably the lodge belonging to nearby Langton House
(q.v.). It is one of an attractive and varied group of listed buildings
fronting onto The Green.

Listing NGR: TQ5420239228

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533467

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Recommended Books

• 
  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
• 
  The Shredded Chef: 120 Recipes for Building Muscle, Getting Lean, and Staying Healthy
• 
  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]