Tudor Cottage, Bailiff'S Cottage And Dower Cottage (Formerly Attached To Shillinglee Park)

Three dwellings originally developed as a forester's lodge, then service quarters and servants' accommodation to Shillinglee House. The buildings date from the 16th and 17th centuries, were altered and added to in the mid to late 18th century, and underwent major alterations in 1976–7.

The complex comprises an original timber-framed building that was progressively altered and extended in brick. All three structures have plain tile roofs and brick stacks. Windows are mostly late 20th-century small-paned casements or sashes, though the west and north elevations retain a number of 19th-century small-pane casement windows; the upper panes of these feature decorative pointed-arched heads. The buildings are two storeys with attic accommodation; Bailiff's Cottage includes a cellar.

The south elevation shows a gabled section on the left (Tudor Cottage) with square-panelled timber framing and tension braces, rendered in 20th-century brickwork and tile-hung gable. A door and three 2-light casement windows occupy the ground floor, with two on the first floor and one in the gable. To the right, a 3-bay range (mostly Bailiff's Cottage) was rebuilt in 1976–7 in stretcher-bond brick with a central door flanked by segmental windows and a round-arched window above. Two late 19th/early 20th-century roof-lights are visible. A large 19th-century sundial is mounted on the ridge; it originally bore a cupola and weather-vane. The right return (Bailiff's Cottage) features a gable of brick in English bond, with evidence of original central window openings, though existing windows all date from 1976–7. A tall brick stack stands on the right, and a late 20th-century conservatory has been added.

The left return comprises Tudor Cottage and Dower Cottage. Tudor Cottage is brick in English bond with some old brick and stone forming an offset plinth and a vertical panel on the left. Stepped eaves and windows of varying lights (3 and 2 on the ground floor, 3 on the first floor, and a 2-light flat-roofed dormer) are present; a tall chimney marks the junction with Dower Cottage. Dower Cottage is constructed of red and blue brick in English garden wall bond, with a central 20th-century door beneath a bracketed canopy, a 2-light window to the left, and a 3-light window to the right. First-floor windows from 1976–7 consist of 2, 3, and 2 lights respectively. Two late 19th/early 20th-century roof-lights and stepped eaves are visible; the roof is hipped on the left. On the north elevation, Dower Cottage features a wide segmental-arched 4-light window with a 1976–7 window above.

Interior details of Tudor Cottage include a large rebuilt ground-floor fireplace with bread-oven. One cross-beam displays a cyma-moulded chamfer; another beam over the fireplace retains slots from former studs. Stone and brick plinth is exposed near the stairs. The first floor contains two tie-beams, one with a straight brace from a wall-post. In the roof space, old rafters and principal rafters survive with peg-holes from former queen struts and slots indicating where purlins once ran. Dower Cottage retains two further roof trusses; that at the former north gable end includes studs and a collar. A passage from the cellar of Bailiff's Cottage rises into the garden.

Until 1976–7, the block was connected to Shillinglee House by a 19th-century kitchen block. Photographs document that a timber-framed range originally ran across the front of the present Tudor Cottage, suggesting the building was originally T-shaped in plan, of which only the 4-bay north range now survives. Photographs recording the building's condition at the time of the 1976–7 restoration are held by the owners of No. 1 Shillinglee House.