Brookside Cottages including outbuilding to south (EHER 39224)

Late 19th century pair of cottages in Vernacular style, formerly a tailor's shop, by W.E. Nesfield.

Pair of cottages and outbuilding, formerly a tailor's shop of about 1875 by W.E. Nesfield in Essex Vernacular style. The cottages have ground floor of red brick and first floors covered in panels of pargetted plaster. It has a tiled roof with central brick chimneystack and is of two storeys with two windows. The front has two projecting gables with wooden bargeboards with overhang supported on curved wooden brackets and four-light wooden casements. The ground floor has plinth and brick pier to centre and ends and the doorcases have plank doors with rectangular fanlights. The side elevations have one casement and the right side cottage has an additional door. To the south is an outbuilding of one storey covered in pargetted plaster on brick plinth. It has a tiled roof with an end brick chimneystack and two triple windows. It is one of a group of buildings designed by W.E. Nesfield in Radwinter following a disastrous fire, notable as an example of social housing. <1>