Description

TQ 56 43 BIDBOROUGH PENSHURST ROAD (south side)

11/21 Mill Cottage

GV II

Small house. Probably C18 origins with later C18 or C19 rear addition.
Ground floor painted brick, first floor tile-hung; peg-tile roof; brick
stacks.

Plan: North-facing with 2 principal rooms at the front heated from end stacks
and a later rear outshut with a gabled rear stair projection in the centre.
The original arrangement may have been a 2 cell building with a
parlour/kitchen at the right end, heated from a large projecting right end
stack, and an unheated room at the left - the left end stack is probably a C20
addition. A straight joint indicates that the rear outshut is a later
addition.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a gabled roof and a C20
flat-roofed central porch and C20 timber casement windows. The rear elevation
has a catslide roof over the outshut and a tile-hung gabled stair projection
rising out of the outshut. One small rear window to the outshut, 2 small
attic dormers to the rear of the ridge.

Interior: Exposed carpentry in the right hand room, there may be other
features of interest.

An attractive small vernacular house.

Group value with Four Winds Windmill (q.v.).

Listing NGR: TQ5615543382

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26541128

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Recommended Books

• 
  Period Property Manual (New Ed)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  County Durham (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England) by Elizabeth Williamson Nikolaus Pevsner(1983-03-11)
• 
  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Period property manual, victorian house manual 2 books collection set by ian rock
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  Devon (Pevsner Buildings of England)