The Mount

The Mount is a pair of cottages built in 1880 by E. Newton for Lord Northbrook. The structure features flint with brick dressing on the ground floor, a timber-frame and plaster first floor, and an old plain tile roof. It has a cruciform plan with a two-bay building and an L-shaped wing off-centre on each side. The front is one and a half storeys high, with two bays and a wing that projects forward to the left of centre, which also extends out to the right. There is an open porch in the outshot with a carved timber surround, and at the end of the wing, there are two one-light casements. The first floor jetties out, supported by a moulded bressumer, and features a four-light casement in the gable. In the right bay, there is a two-light casement with a segmental head and a jettied first floor with a moulded bressumer. The left side of the wing has a jettied first floor that wraps around to the left end, and on the ground floor, there is an oriel window with a coved corbel below. The roof is half-hipped to the right, and there is a central T-section stack with an offset head.