5, BIRD-IN-HAND STREET
5, BIRD-IN-HAND STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1067572
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 5, BIRD-IN-HAND STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 5, BIRD-IN-HAND STREET
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- Date:
- 2002-10-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/06855/23
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1067572
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 5, BIRD-IN-HAND STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 5, BIRD-IN-HAND STREET
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:
- 5, BIRD-IN-HAND STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Speldhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 52974 37725
Details
TQ 53 37 SPELDHURST BIRD-IN-HAND STREET, OLD GROOMBRIDGE 16/452 No 5 20.10.54
GV II*
Cottage. Probably late C17/early C18, minor C19 and C20 modernisatian. Timber-framed on coursed sandstone footings. Most of the frame is hung with peg-tile but the lower section is weatherboarded. Brick stack and chimneyshaft. Peg-tile roof.
Plan: 2-room plan house facing north east. Direct entry into the larger left (south eastern room) which has a projecting gable-end stack. Unheated service room to right.
2 storeys with secondary rear outshots.
Exterior: Irregular 2-window front of C19 and C20 windows (some frames may be older) containing iron-framed casements and diamond panes of leaded glass. Ground floor right (the former service room) window at the right end returning round the cornerpost; presumably this was once a shop window. Roughly central doorway up a couple of stone steps contains a probably C19 plank door. Main roof is gable-ended. Interior: Only the ground floor was available for inspection at the time of this survey. The fireplace is blocked by a C20 grate and both rooms have plain axial joists.
This small, attractive cottage is one of a group of remarkably well-preserved estate houses associated with Groombridge Place (q.v.) which make up the village of Old Groombridge.
Listing NGR: TQ5297337723
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438595
- 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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