Coachman'S Cottage Rookwoods Cottage

Coachman's Cottage, also known as Rookwoods Cottage, is a lodge cottage dating to approximately 1888. It is built of red brick with a red plain tile roof and pierced ridge tiles. The parapet verges have moulded brick coping. A red brick chimney stack is at the rear. The cottage is two storeys high, with a three-window range to the first floor and a two-window range to the ground floor. The first floor windows are casements; the ground floor windows are vertically sliding sashes with glazing bars to the top sash. The design is Queen Anne style, notable for its moulded brickwork, which is similar to that of another lodge cottage approximately 30 metres south (listed separately). The eaves cornice is dentilled and moulded, with a hexaglyph and roundel band running beneath it. Three string courses run through the building, extending to the return walls. The first floor windows on either side have gauged brick arches and a floral motif to the keystone. Ornate window surrounds extend from the ground floor up to the first floor cills, with fleuron panels below the ground floor cills and swags below the first floor cills. The windows have chamfered mouldings. A central oval date plaque displays intertwined "1888" between fluted pilasters, with a floral keystone and enrichments to the pediment. The return walls have pilaster strips at eaves height to the right and left of the central ground floor windows. The windows on the returns have ornate framing, including small fleuron panels above, horizontal swag and roundel panels, and vertical flower vase panels. The gables have moulded surrounds and canopies to fleuron panels. The building is included on the list as a particularly fine example of moulded brickwork in the Queen Anne style.