Listed Building: REEDS FARM COTTAGES (1262880)

TQ 64 SW CAPEL ALDERS ROAD 5/203 Nos 1 and 2 Reeds Farm Cottages II Pair of cottages, former farmhouse. Probably C17, some C19 alterations when divided, some fire damage in 1988. Timber-framed. Ground floor is underbuilt with Flemish bond red brick with burnt headers (more than one build) and the frame above is clad with peg-tile. Brick stack and chimneyshaft. Peg-tile roof. Plan: Pair of cottages in what appears to have been a 3-room lobby entrance plan house facing south south west, say south. The left (west) end room is unheated, a former service room. An axial stack between the other rooms serves back-to-back fireplaces. Front lobby entrance was blocked when the house was divided into cottages and new doorways provided. 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace and probably secondary lean-to outshots to rear. Exterior: Irregular 2-window front of C20 casements without glazing bars. Left of centre is a doorway containing a C20 plank door and there is another similar to the other cottage round the corner in the right end wall. Roof is half-hipped both ends and contains 2 front dormer windows under hipped roofs. The chimneyshaft contains some old, probably C17, brickwork. Interior: Not available for inspection at the time of this survey. Listing NGR: TQ6438143938