Description

TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY BRENCHLEY ROAD, HOMEBUSH

6/43 Homebush Cottage

II

House, formerly 2 cottages. Probably late C17, built in 2 phases, thoroughly
renovated in the 1970s. Framed construction, the ground floor weatherboarded,
the first floor tile-hung; peg-tile roof, gabled at ends; brick stacks.

Plan: The house faces approximately north and fronts the road. Modernised
internally with partitions altered. It is a 2 phase house, the right (west)
end probably the earlier, has been raised.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front; roof gabled at ends;
projecting end stacks with tile-hung set-offs. Half-glazed C20 front door to
left of centre flanked by small-pane windows. 4 ground and 4 first floor
small-pane top-hung C20 casements. 4 similar first floor windows. One attic
dormer with a hipped roof and small pane casement.

Interior: Exposed carpentry of a plain character. The wall framing is of
slender scantling with formed jowls to the wall posts.

Roof: C20 replacement.

On a prominent roadside site.

Listing NGR: TQ6640541975

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541252

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Recommended Books

• 
  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides): Written by Charles O'Brien, 2014 Edition, Publisher: Yale University Press [Hardcover]
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius (Penguin Art & Architecture)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Devon (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)