Kingswood Little Kingswood

Two houses, built around 1897-1900 as a residence for Mr. Hudson's agent, with later 20th-century alterations and extensions. Designed by Romaine Walker. The houses are constructed of dressed chalk with stone mullion windows; the upper storey on the garden side is roughcast and whitewashed with wooden mullion and transom windows. They have a plain tile roof and brick chimneys with 'V' pilasters and offset heads. The houses are two storeys and attic, with the garden-side upper storey jettied, supported by wooden bressumers on curved wooden brackets. Approximately six bays feature irregular leaded casements, with blind boxes to the ground floor left and first floor. Two later 20th-century flat-roofed dormers are in the outer bays. The two central bays project further at the first floor, featuring elaborately cusped wooden bargeboards to an 'M' gable. This projection was originally an arcaded balcony, altered in the mid-20th century to include leaded glazing and a central extension on posts. A board door is set within a moulded and stopped 4-centred stone arch. A lower bay is set back to the left and features a half-hipped roof and a later half-timbered extension. A 2-bay extension, dating to 1923, projects to the right and is constructed of whitewashed roughcast with a stone mullion and transom bow window to the gabled right bay. The rear elevation has flanking gabled bays with bargeboards and finials, and a bridge leading to a central first-floor porch. The porch has a coped gable with moulded kneelers, a door within a 4-centred stone arch, a Tudor hoodmould, and a lozenge panel above. Inside the house, a small first-floor hall is in a late medieval style, with moulded panelling, a coved wooden canopy over a 4-centred stone fireplace, arch-braced roof trusses with an ornamental, richly moulded wooden surround, and good local tiles.