Toms Cottage

Toms Cottage is part of a pair of houses dating from around 1850, built in an Italianate style. The houses are stuccoed, with a rusticated ground floor. Number 3 has a slate roof, while numbers 1 and 38 Brockley Rise have a modern pantiled roof, and the buildings have painted brick chimneystacks. Each house is two storeys high, with one window centrally positioned, and has a three-storey, one-window wing set back on each side. The roofs are low-pitched and hipped, with deep, curved brackets to the eaves soffits. The rusticated ground floor has a cornice. The central section of each house features three-light sashes with round heads and chamfered arches, the ground floor windows being in square bays. The towers have two-light round-headed windows on the second floor, and first-floor square sashes with only vertical elements within a moulded architrave. The main entrance doors are double doors consisting of six panels, set under a segmental arch with a moulded architrave and keystones resting on wide pilasters; a console bracketed cornice sits above the doors. Number 3 has the top two panels of its door glazed. The side elevations of number 1 have square sashes with only vertical elements. The ground floor of number 1 has a square bay with three round-headed windows. Toms Cottage (number 38) has a top storey finished with pebbledash, and a rusticated stucco ground floor, with a 20th-century pantiled roof. The first floor has a French window, and the ground floor has a four-panelled door behind a 20th-century porch, alongside an altered ground-floor window. Twentieth-century flat extensions to the rear are not considered to be of special interest.