Mead Cottage

Mead Cottage is a pair of cottages, originally dating from the early 18th century, which were later converted into picturesque estate cottages in 1858 for T.H.A. Poynder of Hartham Park. The construction incorporates rubble stone, with areas of grey pennant crazed rubble, and stone tiled roofs. The building is two storeys and attic on the right-hand side, and one and a half storeys on the left. It features stone mullion windows with iron lattice glazing. The east gable has a coped design and an end stack, while the west gable is half-hipped. A large dormer window with bargeboards is present on the right side. The first floor features a two-light window, and the ground floor a three-light window, both with hoodmoulds. A fragment of an 18th-century dripcourse is visible at ground floor level on the right. A projecting two-storey gabled porch, constructed in grey crazed rubble with Bath stone dressings, is located on the left side. It has a Tudor-arched doorway, an upper floor that is corbelled out with flush quoins, a two-light window, and a shield in the apex. The lower section of the porch has a dormer gable and a one-window range of two-light mullion windows with hoodmoulds. The west end wall features an upper two-light window with a hoodmould and a ground floor porch, also in grey crazed rubble and gabled, with a Tudor-arched doorway, and a single light window to the left. To the rear are paired gabled rear wings, built in 1858 and featuring end wall stacks and mullion windows. A dated rainwater head is also present. Inside, in the west end of the front range, is an early 18th-century bolection moulded fireplace with a stone shelf.