TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST GROOMBRIDGE HILL (east side) OLD GROOMBRIDGE 7/514 Stone Cottages GV II Row of 5 cottages, originally 6. Probably 1840s. Chisel-dressed local sandstone ashlar brought to course except the attic storey, which is Flemish bond brick; slate roof; stacks with brick shafts. Plan: West facing range, originally symmetrical, each cottage one-room wide and 2-rooms deep with back-to-back fireplaces in 3 axial stacks. Doorways to Nos 1 and 6 at the extreme left and right, the other doors were paired, to left and right of centre. Nos 2 and 3 have been converted to one cottage, blocking the door to the original No 2. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Gable-ended roof. Originally symmetrical 6- window front with a stone platband at first floor level and a brick platband at attic floor level. Chimney shafts with corbelled brick cornices; ground and first floor openings with stone ashlar voussoirs. Recessed plank front doors; 2-light timber casement windows to the ground floor; similar glazing to the small first floor windows, which are arranged in pairs. The gabled attic dormers are slate-hung on the returns with deep eaves with pierced curly bargeboards and are glazed with C19 small-pane timber casements. C20 single- storey lean-to porch addition on the right (south) return. Interior: Not inspected. Group value with other listed buildings on Groombridge Hill. Listing NGR: TQ5368138353