Little Greys

This is a house dating from the early 17th century, with significant additions and alterations made in the early 19th century and the early 20th century. It is constructed with a timber frame, plaster, and a roof covered in handmade red plain tiles. The house has a complex plan, comprising an original early 17th-century range aligned northwest-southeast with a central chimney stack, a large early 19th-century extension to the southwest forming an irregular half-H shape facing southeast and featuring stacks in the left and rear walls of the left range, an early 19th-century service wing to the left with an end stack, and a 20th-century single-storey brick extension beyond.

The house is primarily two storeys high, with a cellar, and the service wing is a single storey with an attic. The windows are scattered throughout the building, including one early 19th-century sash window of 12 lights above the front door. There is an early 19th-century half-glazed door with nine lights, set within a contemporary reeded doorcase, and protected by an early 20th-century gabled porch with a half-glazed outer door. Decorative fretted bargeboards are present on both gables.

The right return, facing Maldon Road, has two early 19th-century sash windows of 12 lights, one early 20th-century casement, and three 20th-century casements in gabled dormers, all with 20th-century external hinged shutters and fretted bargeboards. The left return features a similar sash window on the first floor. The rear elevation also has a similar sash window on the first floor, and incised into the rear chimney stack are the initials "18 JD 14," referring to John Docwra. The early 19th-century windows contain crown glass. There are grouped diagonal shafts on the original chimney stack and the left stack.

Inside, there is an early 19th-century staircase with scrolled tread-ends, stick balusters, a wreathed handrail, and a similar gallery. Wagon ceilings are found over the stair hall and the first-floor rooms of the early 19th-century extension. In the right front ground-floor room, a wide wood-burning hearth has been reduced to accommodate a 20th-century grate, and original hardwood floorboards remain. A rear ground-floor room was restyled in the early 20th century, featuring a lowered ceiling. A rare, high-quality cast iron ducknest grate with two figures in oval medallions, ribbon garlands, and reflector splays sits within a contemporary wooden surround with two slender fluted columns with Composite capitals in the left front ground-floor room. Numerous plain battened internal doors, dating back to the early 19th century or earlier, are present, along with hardwood floorboards in the attic of the service wing. The house was previously known as Grey's Cottage and first listed in 1960.