The Cottage, Amersfort On North Side Of Forecourt

The Cottage, now a gardener’s cottage, was built around 1911 by Ernest Willmott for W.S. Cohen as part of the Amersfort estate, designed to complement the main house. It is constructed of narrow plum brick in an English garden wall bond, with lighter red brick dressings, a plinth, and rusticated corners. The house has deep plaster eaves and a tall, very steep hipped roof covered in red tiles. It is a small, symmetrical building of one storey and an attic, overlooking the south side of the forecourt.

The front of the cottage features two two-light oak-framed windows with small panes, set beneath flat arches of tiles or very narrow bricks. A bold, rectangular chimney with rebated angles sits centrally. A single hipped dormer window is centrally located in the front roof slope. The central, half-glazed panelled door, leading up two semi-circular steps, is framed by a moulded oak surround with a cyma frieze to the entablature. The design was documented in Ernest Willmott's publication, English House Design, in 1911.