Description

TQ 55 41 SPELDHURST SPELDHURST HILL (south side),
SPELDHURST
12/585 The Cottage
20.10.54

GV II

House. Probably mid C17 with some C19 and C20 modernisation. Timber-framed
on coursed sandstone footings. Framing is exposed on the front and left end
walls, rest clad with peg-tile. Ground floor front is underbuilt with Flemish
bond brick with decorative burnt headers. Brick stack, maybe with stone base,
brick chimneyshaft including some old brick. Peg-tile roof.

Plan: 2-room lobby entrance plan house facing west north west, say west,
towards the Church of St Mary (q.v.). Since no internal inspection was
available at the time of this survey it was not possible to determine details
of the plan. Nevertheless central lobby entrance onto the side of the axial
stack which services the left (northern) room. This must have been the main
living room with an unheated service room to right. Projecting right end
gable-end stack is probably a C19 addition. For a C17 2-room plan house The
Cottage is a large and tall building.

2 storeys with attics in the roofspace with secondary outshots to rear.

Exterior: Nearly symmetrical 2-window front of late C19 or C20 casements,
mostly iron-framed with relatively small panes. Central doorway contains a
C20 studded plank door behind a probably late C19 gable porch with cusped
bargeboards. Tall and steeply pitched roof is gable-ended. Left (north) roof
projects and the wall plate is supported on shaped oak brackets. The framing
exposed in the left end includes relatively slender curving braces and the
attic includes a C17 or C18 4-light mullioned window.

Interior: Was not available for inspection at the time of this survey but,
since the external framing is evidently well-preserved, good original
carpentry detail is suspected. North end suggests roof of side purlin
construction whilst front shows that it is of 3 uneven bays.

The Cottage is one of a good group of listed buildings in the vicinity of the
Church of St Mary (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TQ5541741439

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26680812

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Recommended Books

• 
  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair by Hunt. Roger ( 2008 ) Hardcover
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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  Hertfordshire (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