Digital Archive from Level 3 Analytical Historic Building Recording at Slough Wood Cottage, Slough Road, Danbury, Essex, October 2024

This collection comprises images, a Written Scheme of Investigation and a Brief for Archaeological Building Recording from a Level 3 Analytical Historic Building Recording at Slough Wood Cottage, Slough Road, Danbury, Essex. The work was carried out by Colchester Archaeological Trust in October 2024. Slough Wood Cottage is timber-framed, likely constructed from timber sourced from the adjacent Slough House Wood. Using cartographic evidence and a log of timber at Slough House, the building has a suggested construction date of between 1820 and 1839. When originally constructed, it comprised two adjacent double-pile, single-fronted cottages which have since been combined into one dwelling. Some original features survive within the cottage, including some doors and the floorboards. The exterior of the cottage has a concrete render with imitation pargeting, likely added when the cottages were merged.