The Old Cottage The Workhouse

The Workhouse and the Old Cottage is a former poorhouse located on Ightham Common Road, dated 1753. The building features coursed rubble stone with red and blue brick quoins, a band, and dressings. It has a plain tiled roof with rear stacks positioned to the center and left. The structure is two storeys high, with three windows on the first floor and six on the ground floor, all of which are casements with diamond lattice in the center and right. To the right, there is a gabled 19th-century porch that has a boarded door.

Attached to the right end is an early 19th-century cottage, also made of coursed and galletted rubble stone with red and blue brick quoins, a band, and dressings. This cottage features a brick cornice and a plain tiled roof that is hipped to the right and half-hipped to the left, with a rear stack. It is also two storeys tall, with two ground floor windows in segment-headed surrounds, and a central entrance that has a segment-headed surround and a boarded door.