Description

TQ 55 SPELDHURST LOWER GREEN ROAD, SPELDHURST

12/538 Smallbrook Cottage

II

Former farmhouse, once 3 cottages, now a house. Probably mid C17, extensively
refurbished circa 1980 when cottages were reunited to a single house. Timber-
framed on brick footings, some exposed but most hung with peg-tile. Brick
stack (maybe on stone base) and brick chimneyshaft. Peg-tile roof.

Plan: 3-room lobby entrance plan house facing north. It seems that only the
centre room was originally heated. Its axial stack backs onto the right
(west) end room, the end windows of which suggest it was originally a pair of
service rooms. Details of the plan cannot be described in detail without an
internal inspection.

2 storeys with attics in the roofspace.

Exterior: Irregular 2:1:1-window front of C20 casements containing
rectangular panes of leaded glass (similar windows on the other sides). 2-
storey gabled porch right of centre probably built circa 1980. It is exposed
timber framing and open at right side. Front doorway contains a C20 plank
door. Porch gable with shaped bargeboards of circa 1980 (similar bargeboards
on right end gable). Tall and steeply pitched roof is half-hipped to left and
gable-ended to right. Right end wall of exposed framing; relatively slender
scantling with curving tension braces. It is probably C17.

Interior: Was not available for inspection at the time of this survey but
original carpentry detail is suspected.

Listing NGR: TQ5582641416

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533834

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Recommended Books

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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings
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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  [(Cumberland and Westmorland)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1967)
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair