Scrub House Cottage

Scrub House Cottage is likely a late 18th-century cottage, with some alterations in the early 20th century. It is located on Brick Kiln Common in Wisborough Green. The cottage is primarily constructed of rat trap bond brickwork, with the gables, top of the outshot, and rear wall of the outshot using header bond. It has a tiled roof with a catslide to the rear, and brick chimney stacks on the south gable and at the south end of the outshot. The layout is of a two-bay end chimneystack cottage with an integral outshot.

The original east-facing front has two 20th-century casement windows set within earlier surrounds, with a cambered curve to the ground floor. A central doorcase contains a late 18th-century six-panelled door. A small pointed window with leaded lights is on the first floor, with a gabled brick niche below, both likely added in the early 20th century. The south elevation includes a 20th-century V-shaped window and two large triangular buttresses. On the east elevation are a casement window in its original opening, an enlarged casement window, and a triangular corner buttress. A further enlarged casement window is on the north side.

The interior retains original timber partitions, an open fireplace in the south-eastern ground floor room, a domed bread oven in the outshot, and several two-panelled doors, one of which features an 18th-century L-hinge.

The cottage was formerly part of Scrub House Farm and was probably originally a farmworker's dwelling. It was likely a timber-framed building later encased in rat trap bond brickwork, which may account for the substantial buttresses and piers on either side of the outshot door.

Scrub House Cottage is a largely intact late 18th-century building with an unusual brick bond. It retains its original layout and a good amount of original joinery. It holds group value as a well-preserved example of its type.