Keeper'S Cottage

BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA PEENS LANE TQ 74 NE (South side)

2/55 Keeper's Cottage

II

House, formerly gamekeeper's house, now house. Early C17, with facade of circa 1842, and later alterations and addition. Timber framed. Ground floor red brick in Flemish bond, first floor weatherboarded. Plain tile roof. 2 timber- framed bays, formerly with at least one further bay to right; the 2 bays re-faced in c.1842, and the right bay or bays replaced by one bay in same materials as rest, at later date. 2 storeys. Half-hipped roof with jettied half hips. Brick stack rising from eaves towards left end, rear stack to right of centre, and gable end stack to right. Irregular fenestration of two small single-light casements, one over door and one to right. Panelled central door. Date 1842 on brick beside back door. Interior: principal posts with shouldered gunstock jowls. Clasped purlin roof with large windbraces, diminishing principal rafters, and vertical queen-struts to collars.

Listing NGR: TQ7713249416