Description

MEDMENHAM WESTFIELD COTTAGES
SU 78 SE
7/163 Nos. 9 and 10 (formerly listed
under Nos. 1-12)
21.10.77
GV II
Pair of semi-detached estate cottages. Circa 1900. Probably by
Romaine Walker for Mr. Robert Hudson of Danesfield. Lower storey
of red brick in English bond with dentil string arched over doors,
and battered buttresses flanking front; upper storey rendered and
colourwashed; half-hipped plain tile roof; central brick chimney with
off-set cap. One storey and attic, 2 bays. Ground floor has 4-light
barred wooden casements with leaded top-lights, chamfered and off-set
brick sills, and stop-chamfered wooden lintels. Attic has 3-light
barred wooden casements in gabled dormers with richly carved and
cusped bargeboards. Board doors to left and right, with moulded brick
surrounds and semi-circular brick arches over painted terracotta tympana
of local Medmenham ware. Tympana illustrate labours of the months
September and October, No.9 showing the apple harvest, No.10 showing
milking. Doors retain original brass handles and numbers. These 2 cottages
are part of a set of 12.

Listing NGR: SU7981884567

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26418554

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