Descriptive Buildings Record (level 2) at Brockington Cottage, Kington Lane, Kington, Worcestershire

historic building recording In February 2025, a Level 2 historic building recording was carried out at Brockington Cottage, Kington Lane, Kington, Worcestershire WR7 4DH in advance of construction of a proposed two storey and single storey extensions together with removal of front lean-to, replacement windows and works to existing roof (planning Ref: W/24/01631/HP) conditional on a programme of historic building recording prior to development. The west facing direction of the structure is curious, but the western boundary of the site leads the eye northward to ancient routes immediately west of the moat remains at Court Farm. This may suggest that the cottage predates a shift in the main route through the settlement, possibly in the C18. Earthworks surviving to the north of Court Farm and the church suggest that the historic core originally lay to the north and was later replaced with southward expansion. The lean-to had already been added by 1885 and an extension to the existing building is also shown on the site of the modern glazed porch. The evidence from around the house indicating an C18 date may suggest that the simple but elegant fire-surround and mantle in the upper southern room may be original. Brockington Cottage, although late in the history of the old settlement, is the oldest brick-built house (lower farmhouse to the north is a C17 timber-frame) in the village. Its position and orientation in relation to the road and the postulated earlier road on the west side may suggest that the standing building is on the same footprint as an older, perhaps late-medieval, timber-frame, constructed when the main route still lay to the west of the current Kington Lane.