Hambleden Cottage

Hambleden Cottage is a house dating to circa 1820, which incorporates an earlier 18th-century building. A later wing was added to the rear. The front of the building was refaced around 1820 and is now rendered and whitewashed, while the rest of the building features a whitewashed brick finish. The roof is covered with old tile and has rebuilt brick chimneys. The main part of the house has two storeys and three bays, with a plinth and a band course at the level of the first-floor window sills; dentil eaves crown the façade. The ground floor has shallow, semi-circular arched recesses, with a moulded string at the level of the outer piers. Tall wooden windows with horizontal glazing bars fill the ground floor, with the central windows being French doors, the others matching sash windows. The first floor has shorter paired wooden casements, also in a similar style. Each end has an apse with two bays of windows in a similar style; the ground floor of the left apse has been altered to create a single, larger opening. The rear block features 3-pane sashes, and a 20th-century door with a fanlight within a brick arch to the west. A later 19th-century rear extension has a hipped slate roof, two storeys, and sash windows. Inside, the cottage features reeded doorcases with rosettes in the corners; a staircase with stick balusters; a good plaster ceiling frieze; and a white marble fireplace with paterae in the ground-floor room to the right, along with a similar fireplace in the upper left room.