The picturesque cottage is one of a group of ten built around 1810 as retirement homes for the servants of a wealthy banker.

The land on which the cottage stands is part of an estate purchased by John Scandrett Harford, a banker, for £13,000 in 1789.

Harford had a substantial house built and asked the landscape architect Humphry Repton to lay out the grounds.

Repton became a partner of John Nash, whom Harford commissioned to design a group of cottages as homes for his retired servants.

On two sides there is a pent roof over a deep coved eave, with a leaded lattice casement in each wall.