Description

HORSFORTH LOW LANE
SE 23 NW
LS 18 (east side, off)
8/136 Brookfoot House and
29.1.85 Pear Tree Cottage
- II

House, now 2 dwellings, with attached cottages (unoccupied at time of survey,
1986). Late C17, remodelled in C18, and cottages added in C18; altered.
Coursed squared sandstone with quoins, stone slate roofs. The principal
element is a 3-unit formerly lobby-entry plan, with rear outshut. Two
storeys and 3 bays; chamfered plinth; C18 inserted doorways at both
junctions, that at the 2nd junction surrounded by altered coursing in the
masonry, and with a break in the plinth on each side suggesting the position
of a former porch; 3 recessed windows on each floor, all of 2 lights with
flat-faced mullions and double-chamfered jambs, and all now casements with
glazing bars. Raised gable copings with moulded kneelers; external gable
chimney stacks with corniced chimneys, similar chimney on ridge in line with
2nd door.

Interior: altered, but retains, inter alia, moulded plaster beams and
cornices, the top flight of a wide original staircase, a Tudor-arched
chamfered doorway at rear of 1st floor, and at least one decorated cast-iron
"duck's-nest" hobgrate at 1st floor .

Pair of Cottaqes attached and set back at left end, 2 units and 2 low
storeys, facing to rear: 2 doorways with plain surrounds (lst altered as
windows), 2 square windows on each floor, mostly 2-light horizontal sliding
sashes with glazing bars, and small window at 1st floor.

Listing NGR: SE2448038696

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26552209

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Recommended Books

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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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  Sussex: West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: North East and East (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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