NHER 48887 (Building record) - 1 and 2 The Cottage

Pair of Cottages, part of Home Place estate, 1903-5 by E.S. Prior. Ground floor, flint with carstone dressings; first floor, white painted weather- boarding, hipped pantile roof. 3 - 4 bays, open E plan to rear, 2 storeys. Three wide semi-circular carstone arches to ground floor, having deep recesses, centre arch wider with 2 doors having tile on-edge lintels separated by low forward wall; late C20 steel framed casements to left and right recesses. First floor of 4 bays, rebuilt mid C20 after fire, rises from behind parapet of ground floor, 4 steel framed casements. Cross stacks to left and right of roof ridge. Left and right returns as front but in 2 bays, 2 carstone arches to ground floor, 2 windows to first floor. Large external tapering stacks at rear angles, flint with carstone dressings, octagonal shafts of tiles. The Cottage faces the north-west entrance to the kitchen garden qv 6/69.
Information fro (S1).
A. Cattermole (NLA), 1 September 2006.