The Cottage

YALDING SMITHS HILL TQ 75 SW (west side) 2/174 The Cottage II

Partly in West Farleigh civil parish. House, formerly house pair, now house. Later C18, with early C19 additions. Timber framed, weatherboarded, with plain tile roof. Later C18 house built at right-angles to, and set back from, road, with two early C19 additions between it and road. South- facing. Left (west) section: 2 storeys and attic. Half-hipped gambrel roof. Central brick ridge stack, and projecting brick gable end stack to right. Two flat-roofed two-light dormers. Regular 2-window front of two- light casements. Two sixteen-pane sashes with shallow hoodmoulds to ground floor. Boarded door with flat bracketed hood, to right end. Weatherboarded rear lean-to. Central section: 2 storeys, on stone plinth. Roof with lower eaves and ridge than left section, gabled to right. One sixteen-pane sash to first floor. Ground floor underbuilt in ragstone to front, open to rear as a shelter. Right (east) section: 2 storeys, on stone plinth. Roof lower than that of central section, half-hipped to right. Irregular fenestration of 2 two-light casements. Boarded door with lean-to hood towards right end, with small sixteen-pane fixed light to left of it. Short, narrow, two-storey weatherboarded rear return wing to right with projecting right side stack. Two-storey parallel rear range to rest of right section. Interior not inspected. Formerly known as Smith's Hill Cottage.

Listing NGR: TQ7113252042