Description

SMALLS HILL ROAD
1.
5387
(west side)
Roundabout Cottage
TQ 24 SW 1/24
II

2.
Bricks in outshut dated 1750. Mid C18 house of 2 room plan with central entrance
lobby and sunken dairy outshut. Two storeys red brick with some vitrified headers.
Tiled roof. Eaves cornice of bricks set diagonally. Strongcourse. Three casement
windows, the ground floor ones cambered. Central doorcase with later pentined weather
hood. Interior has framed partitions of light scantling to entrance lobby. Internal
jetty between rooms and outshut with square framing. The stairs rise in the outshut.
There is a large inside. ingle nook hearth and a corner parlour hearth. Queen Strut
roof. Pathways of Charlwood stone. The cottage has its name because it is built with
its back to the road. (See Domestic Buildings Research Group Report No 100.
Joan M Harding "Four Centuries of Charlwood Houses" p 74).

Listing NGR: TQ2390643586

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26540799

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Care and Repair
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Harrow on the Hill: A photographic portrayal of listed buildings and structures (Historic Buildings Picture Guides)
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)