Braywood Cottage And Fence

Braywood Cottage and its accompanying fence date from 1869 and were built for the Van de Weyer family as a lodge, later adapted into a small house. The building is constructed of brick with decorative vertical tile hanging, and has a steeply pitched gabled tiled roof. It has an irregular plan, with a circular stair turret at the rear topped with a conical roof. The cottage is one and a half storeys high. The north front, facing the road, has a projecting gable on the right side, featuring a full-height canted bay with an oversailing hipped roof. This bay has decorative timberwork with rendered infill between the ground- and first-floor seven-light leaded casement windows. To the left is a single-bay gablet with a two-light leaded casement window on the first floor, and a four-light similar window below. The brickwork on the ground floor has darker banding, with decorative tiling above in alternating courses of two orange and four black tiles. The west front features alternating bands of brick on the ground floor, with bands of vertical tiling above and below a large gable with pierced and carved bargeboards and decorative timbering with painted roughcast infill. A small two-light leaded casement oriel window with a conical tile roof abuts the wall on the ground floor. An entrance door is set within a recessed lean-to porch with a hipped roof and similar bargeboards and entry screen. A carved terra-cotta date panel displaying the year 1869 and the interwoven initials of the Van de Weyer family is present. The wooden fence at the front consists of four bays of a squared pattern with a cross formation above, and is of a similar date to the lodge. Braywood Cottage, along with Braywick Lodge, were part of the Van de Weyer family's estate; their main house, New Lodge, is listed separately.