Description

TQ 53 37 SPELDHURST GROOMBRIDGE HILL (west side),
OLD GROOMBRIDGE
16/516 Fountain Cottages
11.1.90
GV II

Pair of small cottages. C18 or early C19. Timber-framed on Flemish bond red
brick footings with burnt headers. Most is hung with peg-tile and some of the
outshots are weatherboarded. Brick stack with brick chimneyshaft; peg-tile
roof.

Plan: Pair of small labourer's cottages on the hillside facing south east
towards Groombridge Place (q.v.). Each has a mirror plan of the other. One-
room plan with rear lateral stack serving corner diagonal fireplaces.
Entrance through lean-to outshots each end and services in C20 lean-to
outshots to rear.

Main block is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace.

Exterior: 2-window front of timber casements containing rectangular panes of
leaded glass. Similar windows around the other sides although some contain diamond panes. The windows are old, mostly C19, and some maybe original.
Main roof is gable-ended. Doorways in end outshots are C20 plank doors.

Interiors: Have plain carpentry detail where exposed. Roof was not available
for inspection at the time of this survey.

This attractive pair of small cottages on Groombridge Hill form part of a good
group of varied listed buildings above Old Groombridge village.

Listing NGR: TQ5323337934

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551872

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Recommended Books

• 
  Hampshire: Winchester and the North (The Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5
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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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  Oxfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Worcestershire Revised Edition (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)