Southenay Cottage
SOUTHENAY COTTAGE, SOUTHENAY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061061
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Southenay Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTHENAY COTTAGE, SOUTHENAY LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/13799/10
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061061
- Date first listed:
- 15-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Southenay Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTHENAY COTTAGE, SOUTHENAY LANE
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTHENAY COTTAGE, SOUTHENAY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sellindge
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 10174 39703
Details
TR 13 NW SELLINDGE SOUTHNEY LANE (South Side)
3/89 Southenay Cottage
II
House. C15 or early C16, with later C16 addition. Later alterations. Restored in 1980s. Timber framed. Ground floor underbuilt with red brick in English bond, first floor rendered. Rear wing clad with painted galleted stone. Plain tile roof. 1½ timber-framed bays of an open hall with later C16 cross-wing of 2 timber-framed bays to left forming T plan. Long left return elevation of wing formed entrance front from at least C18. Open hall range (now rear wing) 1½ storeys. Cross-wing 2 storeys and attic. Present front elevation: formerly with continuous jetty, returning along right gable end and now underbuilt. Eaves of right gable end jettied (possibly with gable above), with mortices for brackets under wall-plate ends. Lower eaves and ridge to rear wing. Roof now hipped to right and left. Broad projecting red brick stack in English bond to left gable end. Gable end stack to rear wing. Central hipped C20 dormer. Irregular fenestation of 2 windows; one 3-light casement and one 6-pane sash. Boarded door with 4-light fanlight off-centre to right in panelled recess, with gabled canopy. Lean-to to rear of left gable end, returning round rear of building. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded axial and cross-beams, joists, dragon- beam and cornice with leaf chamfer-stops to ground floor of "front" range. Chamfered principal posts. Moulded 4-centred arched doorhead between ranges. Moulded fireplace bressumer to rear wing. Clasped purlin roof to front range with windbraces and diminishing principal rafters. Collared common rafter roof to rear range. C18 staircase to front range.
Listing NGR: TR1017439703
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175667
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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