The Old Cottage Wealdon Cottage

TR 14 SE ELHAM NORTH ELHAM

4/49 The Old Cottage and Wealden Cottage 29.12.66 (formerly listed as Holmdale and Cottage adjoining Holmdale)

GV II

House, now house pair. Probably late C16, with C17 and late C18 alterations Timber framed, with red brick infilling, except first floor of right half, which is tile-hung. Left gable end red brick in Flemish bond with exposed posts, right rendered. Plain tile roof. Apparently subdivided by principal posts into 4 timber-framed bays, the left bay framed as a cross-wing. Built at right-angles to road, facing west. 2 storeys, on flint plinth. Continuous jetty with boarded fascia, on moulded solid-spandrel brackets returned to left and right on moulded dragon posts. Gable-end jetties underbuilt, that to right end in C17-style brick with moulded corbel under jetty. Left gable-end jetty returns again along rear. Roof hipped to left, gabled to right. Brick ridge stack in second timber-framed bay from left, and projecting pebbledashed stack to right end. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows. one sixteen-pane sash to left bay (or cross-wing), one small single-light casement to stack bay, and one three-light casement to each right bay. Three sixteen-pane sashes in open boxes to ground floor. Each bay, except second from left, has two studs morticed for oriel or bay window. Evidence for similar arrangement to first floor. Boarded door under stack. Later red brick rear lean-to. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TR1819644727