Keepers Cottage, Petts Wood

Two storey detached cottage L shaped plan with extensions
Walls : Red brick flemish bond, recently repointed
Roof : Pitched with plain tiles and half round ridge. two brick chimneys. Wooden scalloped-edge barge-board to eaves.
Windows : All wooden casement, small bay in front [south] elevation. Modern windows on ground floor east & north elevations.
Doorways : Brick with timber supporting plain tile roof porch with glazed panel door on south elevation.
Other features : in keeping, lean-to brick with plain tile roof extensions to north and south elevations.
Foundations of a privy to rear of house. Modern square brick wood store with arched roof to west.
This cottage formed part of the Kevington Estate and was built by Mr Berens for his gamekeeper. It was the scene of a double murder in 1880 (Waymark 1990).
Victorian Post Medieval

Metadata

ARIADNE ID
14691741
Original ID
1772528
Language
English
Resource type
Sites and monuments databases or inventories
Original Subject
  • ESTATE COTTAGE
Dating
  • 1850 – 1900
  • 1837 – 1900 , Victorian
  • 1540 – 1900 , Post Medieval
Place
  • England [0.088605, 51.397377]
Type
Dataset
Publisher
  • Archaeology Data Service [Organization]
Issued
Modified

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Contributor
  • National Trust [Organization]
Identifier
http://registry.ariadne-infrastructure.eu/dataset/14691741
Package ID
3428
Provider ID
1104

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