Mead Cottage

Mead Cottage is a cottage dating from 1895, designed by H. Thackery Turner in a vernacular style. It is constructed of bargate and sandstone rubble, laid randomly, with a plain tiled roof which is bellcast at the eaves and supported by elaborate scrolled-iron gutter supports. The building has an L-shaped plan and is positioned at an angle to the street. It is a low two-storey building with one cross-ridge stack on each range. The gables each contain a three-light casement window on both floors; a one 2-light casement window is in the ground floor of the left wing, and a three-light window is on the right-hand side. A door is located in the angle on the right, sheltered by a cambered head and triangular pentice roof. 20th-century brick extensions to the rear left are not considered to be of particular architectural interest. Mead Cottage is one of several buildings designed by Turner in the area. It is mentioned in Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England: Surrey on page 291.