Alcove Cottage

MALDON

TL8506 WANTZ ROAD 574-1/9/215 (West side) 24/09/71 No.46 Alcove Cottage

GV II

House. Early C19. Timber-framed and part weatherboarded, part rendered; low-pitched asbestos cement slate roofs; 2 large ridgeline stacks. H-plan form with additional narrower range to north flank. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys; 3+1-window range. 2 wide gables flanking centre and one narrow gable to north. The wide gables each have a 16-pane sash with moulded surround, over a canted bay window with lead hipped roof and hybrid margin glazed sash. The bay flanks are white weatherboarded, as is some of the ground floor walling. The centre has a single 1st floor window as to gables over an Ionic portico, the entablature of which has been altered. The narrow, north wing has a 12-pane sash and is fronted by a conservatory. The south flank has rendered 1st floor with two 12-pane sash windows and white boarded ground floor with 2 margin-glazed hybrid sash windows. 2 large stacks on ridgeline. On the rear the south wing projects further west. Between the 2 wide wings is an area of flat roof with a rear lean-to over staircase window. The rear of the north, wide, wing has a 12-pane sash on its 1st floor. The ground floor of rear is substantially abutted by later single-storey extensions. INTERIOR: not inspected.

Listing NGR: TL8528406780