Kent Cottage

Kent Cottage is a house dating to around 1930, designed by M.C. Baillie Scott. It is constructed from stretcher bond brick, tile hanging, and timber framing, with a plain tile roof and brick axial stacks. The layout consists of a full-depth drawing room on the left and a dining room with kitchen in front on the right. An outshut, centrally located at the front, serves as the entrance hall and houses the stairs, extending to the right to contain services and an outhouse.

The architectural style is English Domestic Revival. The house is two storeys and has an attic. The asymmetrical north-west front incorporates timber framing on the left with tile hanging above. The main roof slopes down as a catslide over the central entrance, which has a panelled door, and over the outshut on the right extending into a corner outhouse. A flat-roofed dormer sits centrally, and a tall stack rises from the roof to the right. The south-east garden front is tile-hung on the first floor, with a jettied section over a timber-framed ground-floor recess on the right, featuring a canted bay window and an integral wooden bench; brickwork is found on the left with a French casement. The half-hipped north-east and south-west gable ends are tile-hung; the north-east has a timber-framed ground floor and the south-west is brick. All windows are metal-frame casements with leaded panes of 1, 2, 3, and 4 lights.

The interior remains largely unaltered and complete, retaining much of the original oak joinery, including the staircase, plank doors with wrought iron hinges, and panelling. The drawing and dining rooms both have original brick fireplaces; the drawing room’s has a Tudor arch, while the smaller hearth in the dining room features an elliptical arch.