Goosebery Hall Cottage

Gooseberry Hall Cottage is a pair of cottages, now combined into a single house, dating from 1896. It was designed by George Devey for William Oxenden Hammond as part of the St. Albans Court estate. The construction combines dressed stone and red brick, with blue diaper patterns on the ground floor, rendered walls above, exposed timber framing, and tile hanging on the gables. The roof is tiled. The architectural style is characteristic of the St. Albans Court estate.

The cottage is one storey and attic, featuring a continuous jetty supported by corbelled brackets with a moulded bressumer. Projecting double jettied gables are present to the right and to the left return, and a two-storey canted bay window is situated centrally to the left. Stacks project at the end to the right and at the front to the left. A small oriel window is located on both floors of the gable to the right, while mullioned windows are found on the ground floor of the bay. A four-centred rib and stud door is positioned in the centre to the right, accompanied by side lights. A date roundel on the first floor of the bay is inscribed “W H 1896.” A blocked doorway is visible in the left side of the right-hand gable, now replaced with a wooden casement window. An original iron hand pump remains at the rear.