Description

TQ 73 SW TICEHURST HAWKHURST ROAD
Flimwell
2/10016
Keepers Cottage
1.8.95
II

Estate cottage. Circa 1870; possibly designed by Slater and Carpenter and part of the Seacox Heath estate; altered in C20. Ground floor coursed stone rubble, first floor part tile-hung, part timber-framed with roughcast infill. Clay plain tile roof with gabled ends with fretted bargeboards. Brick lateral and gable-end stacks with tall clustered shafts. PLAN: L-shaped on plan; small late C19 or early C20 single-storey wing and mid C20 gabled bay added to rear, west; late C20 conservatory on south side. Picturesque Gothic style. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical elevations. East front has jettied timber-framed gable projecting on left With pierced wavy bargeboards, curved bracing and fishscale tile-hanging in gable-apex and window tympanum; 3-light mullion-transom first floor window with leaded casements and canted bay on ground floor also with leaded casements; two windows to right, fust floor tile-hung. Right-hand [north] return has similar jettied gable, but with 2 casement windows on ground floor and mid C20 extension on right with lateral stack. South side has gable to left with late C20 conservatory and to right first floor tile,-hung and with lateral stack. Rear, west, has small single-storey gable-ended wing on right and mid C20 projecting tile-hung gable on left with doorway between with gabled canopy. Some of the windows are C20 replacements. INTERIOR has some C19 joinery and C20 chimneypieces.
SOURCE: Buildings of England, page 503.

Listing NGR: TQ7236530357

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26563761

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