Greenholme Wheelwrights Cottage

TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST THE GREEN (east side), LANGTON GREEN 7/483 Greenholme and Wheelwrights Cottage

GV II

2 cottages, probably one house originally. Probably late C17/early C18 with mid/late C19 workhop (now garage). Modernised circa 1985. House is timber- framed. Ground floor level is underbuilt with stretcher bond brick, frame above hung withpeg-tile, bricks tacks and chimneyshafts. Peg-tile roof. Former workshop is Flemish bond red brick with peg-tile roof.

Plan: Pair of cottages occupying a late C17/early C18 3-room plan house facing west north west, say north, onto The Green. Greenholme occupies the left one-room section which has a rear lateral stack (probably an insertion). Wheelwright Cottage occupies the rest. Centre room has original rear lateral stack and the right end room has a probably secondary end stack. Large workshop adjoining right (south) end.

House is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace.

Exterior: House has regular but not symmetrical 4-window front of C20 casements with rectangular panes of leaded glass. Both cottage front doorways contain C20 plank-doors with coverstrips under gabled hoods on raking struts. Tall roof is half-hipped both ends and contains a single front gabled dormer.

The gabled front of the workshop contains a set of part-glazed double doors with long strap hinges alongside a sash window without glazing bars under a low segmental brick arch. Gable has decorative pattern of burnt headers and contains a bullseye window.

Interior: Was not available for inspection at the time of this survey although some plain carpentry detail was seen.

This pair of cottages form part of an attractive and varied group of listed buildings fronting The Green.

Listing NGR: TQ5433739231