Description

GOUDHURST BALCOMBES HILL TQ 7237-7337 (south east side) 15/69 White's Cottage and White's Lodge, wall and gate piers attached GV II Cottage and walls with gate piers. Circa 1907. Red brick and applied timber frame with plaster infill and weatherboarded with plain tiled roof. The earliest phase probably the walls and gate piers, forming the boundary to White's (item 15/68). Walls about 8 to 10 feet high, stepped down in several stages along road- side, extending some 100 yards in total, with piers with cornice and ball finials at intervals, and especially to gateway to Whites, and flanking the roadside elevation of Whites Cottage, where a round-headed window with louvred shutters pierces the wall, which is raised over it with a shaped gable. White's Cottage: 2 storeys and attic, hipped to right with studs to left and to right, and hipped dormer to right return. Three wooden casements on first floor, 2 on ground floor with half-glazed door to right. Left return wing with garret and double span gabled roof, 2 wooden casements on all 3 floors, mullioned and transomed on ground floor, with central glazed door. The end left block is a later addition.

Listing NGR: TQ7238437470

External Links

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  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6
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