Blaise Hamlet Vine Cottage

Vine Cottage is a cottage built in 1812 by John Nash and George Repton for J.S. Harford. It features a random rubble exterior, brick lateral stacks, and a stone tile half-hipped roof. The cottage has a single-depth plan and is designed in a picturesque style. It is a single-storey building with an attic and has a two-window range. The doorway is located under a pent roof to the right-hand rear, leading to a plank door. The front of the cottage has a pent roof over a central canted bay that extends to the left over a bench and to a right-hand service block. The windows are lattice leaded casements, with paired windows at the front, a single window to the right, and paired windows above set in a dovecote in the gable. The rear features a half-hipped gable with a ground-floor canted bay. There are round single and central paired faceted brick stacks with moulded caps on the left side. The interior has not been inspected but is reported to include a stair flight, sitting room, and pantry. Vine Cottage was arranged by Harford for his retired employees and is part of a group of cottages that create a picturesque layout around an open green. The cottages were modernised around 1975. With its elevation toward the road, Vine Cottage may have also served as a lodge.