The Cottage

House, approximately dating from 1905-6, with a service wing and motor house added around 1907-8. Designed by Barry Parker of Parker and Unwin for H.W. Hurrell Esq. The main house is constructed of clay bat with some timber framing to the rear, originally roughcast rendered and now with a cement finish. It has steeply pitched plain tiled roofs with a deep overhang at the eaves and crested ridge tiles, and features three gault brick stacks – one to the ridge, one to the right-hand gable end, and a third set obliquely to the front wall, each with a narrow string course but no projecting capping. The original layout comprises a single range of four equal squares, with the porch and hall/staircase partly superimposed over the end bays. The building is two storeys high, with three- and four-light casement windows to each level. A two-storey porch, set obliquely to the front wall, has a flat roof and four loop openings on the first floor. The living room, located to the south, features a bay window aligned with the side walls of the porch and hall.

An addition, the service wing and motor house, joins the main house to the north and is slightly later in construction. It uses similar materials, with exposed framing in the gable end facing the road, but has pantiled roofs at a lower level and a single gault brick stack. It is also two storeys high and includes a gable dormer.

The interior of the main house contains an early 18th-century reset closed-string staircase with turned balusters in the entrance hall. The living room has a corner fireplace behind the staircase, complete with an overmantel and some early 17th-century reset panelling. A possible 18th-century fireplace with a 17th-century overmantel and Art Nouveau-style grate is found in the study. The first floor retains original simple red tile fireplaces, and most of the original doors and windows remain. Original fittings are largely intact in the kitchen/scullery area.

The service wing also preserves original doors, windows, and fittings, including boarded walls in the harness room and loose boxes with corner sinks in the stables. A fireplace is located within the groom’s room above the coach house.