Description

TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY BRENCHLEY ROAD, WALNUT TREE

6/51 Swingle Swangle Cottages

GV II

Row of cottages, formerly almshouses. Probably early C19 with some C20 alteration. English and Flemish bond brick with plastered dressings in imitation of stone; slate roof; brick stacks.

Plan: Row of 4 cottages on the roadside, facing north east. The outer cottages have doors to the right, the 2 centre cottages have adjacent doors. The left hand (south) cottage is separately-roofed, with a wider span and an axial stack. 2 axial stacks to the rest of the range, one with a corbelled brick cornice. Interior not inspected, details of plan unclear at time of survey (1989).

Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window front. The doorways all preserve attractive plaster detail, the jambs rendered, the lintels plastered to imitate stone voussoirs, including incised panels and imitation keystones with rusticated ornament. The original ground floor windows have similar decoration over the lintels, shoulderedd architraves and sill brackets. First floor windows with eared shouldered architraves. The left hand block is Flemish bond brick with imitation quoins in plaster at the abutment with the adjacent block. The left hand door is a C20 replacement, the 2 centre doors are C19 and panelled; plank door to the right. 3 original ground floor 16- pane C19 sash windows. 2 windows have unfortunately been replaced by a C20 bow and a C20 bay window. 5 first floor 16-pane C19 sashes.

Interior: Not inspected.

Enough of the original external detail survives to offset the unfortunate window replacements.

Group value with Walnut Tree Cottage and the Chapel (q.v.) on the opposite side of the road.

Listing NGR: TQ6661441806

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