Hazelhurst Cottage Lilac Cottage

CRANBROOK THE STREET, (SOUTH TQ 7837-7937 SIDE), SISSINGHURST

8/259 Lilac Cottage and - Hazelhurst Cottage GV II

Hall-house, later 2 cottages and butcher's shop, now 2 cottages. C16 with mid C19 front block. Timber-framed and clad in red brick to rear. Half-timbered front block with red and blue brick chequer under building and weather-boarded first floor. Plain tiled roofs. Front block: Two storeys with hipped roof and 2 tall brick ridge stacks. Irregular 3-window first floor, glazing bar sashes. Irregular fenestrationon ground floor of C19 shop-window to left, C19 shallow octagonal bay in centre and early C20 tiled butcher's shop window at right with decorative tiles of bull's head to right. Panelled door with margin glazed transom light over to left, and half-glazed door to left of centre, both with flat hoods on brackets over. Half-glazed door inset in shop front to right. Rear block: One and a half storeys with deep catslide roof. Plain tiled roof with gablet to left, half-hipped to right with half-hipped cross wing to right and central gabled dormer. Tall brick ridge stack off-centre to right. Interior: Some evidence of timber-framing on first floor of centre. Later inserted floor with chamfered floor beams. Tiled butcher's shop with decorative landscape patterns and pictures of animals, clock set into wall and light-fitting above, all circa 1930.

Listing NGR: TQ7937037494