Description

TQ 67 41 BRENCHLEY HATMILL LANE

15/87 Brookside Cottage

II

House. Probably late C16. Framed construction on sandstone footings; peg-tile
roof; brick stack.

Plan: The house faces west. Small 3-bay 2-cell house with an outshut at the
south end. The 2 rooms are heated by back-to-back fireplaces in an axial
stack, the outshut has been absorbed into the house as a third room.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3-window front, the framing survives to
the footings with tension braces above the middle rail to the right (north).
Roof half-hipped at ends with a lean-to roof over the left end outshut. Stack
with staggered shafts and corbelled brick cornice, the front shaft with a
recessed panel. C19 plank front door to the lobby entrance with a late C20
gabled porch hood. Various C20 casement windows of different sizes, 3 to the
ground floor, 2 to the first floor. The rear elevation has a large glazed
fixed window to the ground floor and various Cl9 and C20 casements and sashes.

Interior: Exposed waney joists on the long axis to the larger (southern)
heated room. The north room has a rough crossbeam and exposed joists. Open
fireplaces with brick jambs to both rooms. C20 stair rises against the rear
wall adjacent to the stack. Jowled wall posts to the framing.

Roof: Staggered butt purlin roof with some evidence of blackening to the
timbers round the stack.

Listing NGR: TQ6773141353

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541721

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Recommended Books

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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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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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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and The Forest of Dean: Vale and Forest of Dean Pt. 2 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Victorian House Manual (2nd Edition): How They Were Built, Improvements & Refurbishment, Solutions to All Common Defects - Includes Relevant ... ... Properties (Haynes Manual) (Haynes Manuals)