Description

SESSAY MAIN STREET
SE 47 NE
(west side)
4/42 Honeysuckle Cottage and
Path Head
- II

Pair of cottages. c1850 by William Butterfield for Lord Downe, altered c1980.
Pinkish brick in English garden wall bond (5:1); plain purplish tiles to roof.
1 storey with attic; 2 bays with rear outshut (Path Head) and cross-wing on right,
in line at front (Honeysuckle Cottage). Cross-wing, with half-hipped gable, has
C20 bow window to ground floor and another C20 window above breaking into timber
framing. Two left bays unaltered having, on right, a 4-panel door with wood frame
and segmental header-brick relieving arch; above it a small 2-light, small-pane
window set under eaves; to its left, two 3-light, small-pane windows, the outer
lights sashes; similar dormer window under hipped roof to centre. Roof half-hipped
to left, hipped to right, with tabled, offset, cross-ridge stack between left bays
and another to rear of cross-wing. Rear: cross-wing has half-hipped gable with
C20 window, and C20 additions not of special interest; outshut on right, under less
steeply-pitchen catslide roof, has board door flanked by 3-light windows as front
with inserted window to left. Left return: gabled blind projection; timber-framing
in gable with paired 8-pane sashes. Right return: gabled porch with small 4-pane
window, door in- rear side, and C20 interlocking tile roof; small 4-pane window at
eaves on right.

Listing NGR: SE4542375673

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26443510

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