Description

1.
5280 PENSHURST PENSHURST
Main Street
(South Side)

The Cottage
TQ 5243 23/829 10.9.54.

II GV

2.
Queen Anne elevational facade masking C16 framed structure. 2 storeys and dormers.
Ridge tile roof and centre stack. Brick with brick band. Ornamental 3 centred
brick moulding over door (probably C19).
Ground floor: Restored panelled doorway with top lights. Egg and dart moulding
around chamfered edges of panels. On either side of door, 2 octagon projecting
bay windows with sash bars and supported on carved wooden brackets. Projecting
hood over door supported on carved wooden brackets resting on stone corbels.
Continuous dentilled moulding forming cornice to bay windows and hood.
First floor: 2 sash windows in exposed frames. Dentilled frieze and cornice
supporting gutter.
Two hip tiled dormers with heavy oversailing moulded eaves. Casement windows.
Glazing bars to all windows.

Quaintways Tea Rooms, The Cottage, Colquhoun House and Longford form a group
with Kirkwood Garden Shop and La Petite Hair Salon.

Listing NGR: TQ5266043744

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26535943

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Recommended Books

• 
  Development and Design of Heritage Sensitive Sites: Strategies for Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)
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  Lancashire: Liverpool and the South-West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)