HILDENBOROUGH LONDON ROAD (south west side) TQ 54 NE 5/138 Nos 83 and 85 (Hilden Cottages) - II Pair of adjoining cottages. Probably early C19. Brick ground floor, the first floor framed construction with tile-hanging; peg-tile roof; brick stacks. Plan: North-facing. A pair of adjoining mirror plan cottages, each consisting of a principal parlour/kitchen at the front, heated from end stacks, with unheated service rooms in integral rear outshuts. Each cottage has a straight stair rising against the party wall and front doors on the north elevation towards the centre. The right hand cottage, No 85, has been modernized inside to the partition between the main room and outshut has been removed. Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical 3-bay front, the left hand cottage, No 83, preserving the early C19 plank front door, No 85 with a C20 front door. Small pane C19 and C20 timber casement windows, 3-light to the ground floor, 2 2-light windows to the first floor and 2 flat-roofed attic dormers with diamond leaded panes. Projecting end stacks with tile-hung off- sets, the left end stack with a projecting bread oven. Interior: No 85 modernized but preserving its original stair. No 83 is very complete internally with early C19 joinery. The framing, exposed on the interior of No 83, is close-studded and of slender scanthing. Roof: Not inspected. A pair of small, attractive vernacular cottages. Listing NGR: TQ5580049400