Honeysuckle Cottage And Path Head

SESSAY MAIN STREET SE 47 NE (west side) 4/42 Honeysuckle Cottage and Path Head - II

Pair of cottages. c1850 by William Butterfield for Lord Downe, altered c1980. Pinkish brick in English garden wall bond (5:1); plain purplish tiles to roof. 1 storey with attic; 2 bays with rear outshut (Path Head) and cross-wing on right, in line at front (Honeysuckle Cottage). Cross-wing, with half-hipped gable, has C20 bow window to ground floor and another C20 window above breaking into timber framing. Two left bays unaltered having, on right, a 4-panel door with wood frame and segmental header-brick relieving arch; above it a small 2-light, small-pane window set under eaves; to its left, two 3-light, small-pane windows, the outer lights sashes; similar dormer window under hipped roof to centre. Roof half-hipped to left, hipped to right, with tabled, offset, cross-ridge stack between left bays and another to rear of cross-wing. Rear: cross-wing has half-hipped gable with C20 window, and C20 additions not of special interest; outshut on right, under less steeply-pitchen catslide roof, has board door flanked by 3-light windows as front with inserted window to left. Left return: gabled blind projection; timber-framing in gable with paired 8-pane sashes. Right return: gabled porch with small 4-pane window, door in- rear side, and C20 interlocking tile roof; small 4-pane window at eaves on right.

Listing NGR: SE4542375673