Barrack Cottages

BROOMFIELD LOWER BROOMFIELD TQ 85 SW ROAD (west side) 2/15 Barrack Cottages 26.4.68 GV II

Cottage row. Early 19th century. Coursed galletted stone on galletted stone plinth, with end pilaster strips and broad full- height central panel in chequered red and grey brick. Two 3-course plat bands in English bond with central grey brick header course; one above plinth and one between floors. Red brick window and door dressings. Two parallel ranges. 2 storeys and cellars, with dentilled red brick eaves cornice. Hipped roof, hips returning to right and left. 4 stacks; one towards each end, one at left end and one to rear at right end. Regular 7-window front of deeply recessed round-headed 2-light casements with projecting keystones and cills; one to central panel and 3 smaller ones to each side section. No keystone to central window. 8 ground-floor windows in pairs under outer windows of each side section. 3 recessed round-headed boarded doors, central door broader, each with 2 segmental top lights; one to central panel and one to centre of each side section, that to right up 2 steps. Broad chamfered wooden hood over central door. Coach house added to right. Stone with red brick dressings. 2 storeys. Lean-to roof with stone-coped parapet. One window in same style as cottages. Blocked double doorway to ground floor. Single-storey stone lean-to added to right of coach- house, formerly part of a bullock yard. Interior not inspected, but said to retain original doors. Associated with Leeds Castle.

Listing NGR: TQ8389452514