HILDENBOROUGH LOWER STREET (west side) TQ 54 NW 4/143 The Bungalow - II Estate cottage on the Leigh estate. Circa 1870s. Flemish bond brick on a ragstone rubble plinth, the gables clad in imitation of timber-framing; peg- tile roof; brick stacks. Vernacular Revival style. Plan: A roadside cottage, facing east on to Lower Street. Overall L plan, the living room in the south block heated from an axial stack backing on to a passage entrance. The kitchen is in a crosswing adjoining at the north and heated from a stack on the north side. Exterior: Single-storey. Good external Vernacular Revival detail. Asymmetrical east front with one window to the gable of the kitchen wing to the right. Open-fronted timber porch with a gabled roof with curly bargeboards and a pendant supported on chamfered stopped posts with moulded pierced spandrels and sections of turned balustrading on either side of the doorway. The porch is laid with C19 tiles. Plain C19 plank front door with an overlight. To the left of the porch a red terra cotta panel of pomegranates is set below a moulded brick hoodmould. To the right, the gable of the kitchen wing has deep brattished verges carried on trefoil-pierced moulded brackets, and a yellow terra cotta panel of peaches in the gable above a moulded timber cornice. Coved 4-light transomed oriel window below. The north side of the kitchen has a projecting lateral stack with set-offs, serving one fireplace, with 2 tall showpiece C16 style shafts. One is octagonal with ornamental vertical shafts, the other has barley-sugar moulding and both have corbelled brick cornices. 3 windows to the north elevation, including a chimney window in the stack. The south gable end has deep eaves on moulded brackets and a jettied gable, clad with wooden shingles, with a pendant and moulded fascia board. 3-light transomed window with a brattished lintel and moulded brick shafts to the jambs. An interesting example of a C19 bungalow. The Leigh estate, developed by Samuel Morely, Liberal M.P. and hosiery millionaire, employed both George Devey and George and Peto on the estate houses and cottages. Listing NGR: TQ5433948339