Description

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965/0/10056 HORSHAM ROAD
Brookhill Cottage

GV II
Former estate lodge, now a private house. Early to mid C19. Tudor Gothic style. MATERIALS: West Hoathly sandstone rubble with ashlar dressings, bedded in lime mortar. Slate roof; brick chimneystacks.
PLAN: T-shaped in plan. One storey and attics: two windows to front and one to sides. Each floor has one room to either side of the central stairs, and a room to the rear of the stair.
EXTERIOR: Front elevation has a central gabled porch with a four-centred arch and elaborate fretted wooden bargeboards; plank front door. Gabled dormers with similar bargeboards. Gables of side elevations also have fretted bargeboards. Rear elevation has central gable with casement window, lean-to external lavatory to right and later brick lean-to to left. A modern full-width single-storey conservatory was added to the rear elevation in 2004. Original metal-framed casement windows with rectangular lights. Gabled roof with a central pair of brick chimneystacks on stepped bases.
INTERIOR: Simple cottage interior with a central straight flight of stairs. It retains most of its original plank doors and cupboards.
SUMMARY OF IMPORTANCE: Of special interest as a little-altered estate lodge on the picturesque mode. It has important group value with Brookhill House (qv).

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26670694

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Recommended Books

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  The green guide for historic buildings: how to improve the environmental performance of listed and historic buildings
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Kent: West and the Weald: The Buildings of England (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Georgian Style and Design for Contemporary Living
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  Somerset: South and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)