Hazelhurst Cottage Lilac Cottage

HAZELHURST COTTAGE, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1067706
Date first listed:
19-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Hazelhurst Cottage Lilac Cottage
Statutory Address:
HAZELHURST COTTAGE, THE STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1067706
Date first listed:
19-May-1986
List Entry Name:
Hazelhurst Cottage Lilac Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
HAZELHURST COTTAGE, THE STREET
Statutory Address 2:
LILAC COTTAGE, THE STREET

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HAZELHURST COTTAGE, THE STREET
Statutory Address:
LILAC COTTAGE, THE STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Kent
District:
Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:
Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
National Grid Reference:
TQ 79370 37494

Details

CRANBROOK THE STREET, (SOUTH TQ 7837-7937 SIDE), SISSINGHURST

8/259 Lilac Cottage and - Hazelhurst Cottage GV II

Hall-house, later 2 cottages and butcher's shop, now 2 cottages. C16 with mid C19 front block. Timber-framed and clad in red brick to rear. Half-timbered front block with red and blue brick chequer under building and weather-boarded first floor. Plain tiled roofs. Front block: Two storeys with hipped roof and 2 tall brick ridge stacks. Irregular 3-window first floor, glazing bar sashes. Irregular fenestrationon ground floor of C19 shop-window to left, C19 shallow octagonal bay in centre and early C20 tiled butcher's shop window at right with decorative tiles of bull's head to right. Panelled door with margin glazed transom light over to left, and half-glazed door to left of centre, both with flat hoods on brackets over. Half-glazed door inset in shop front to right. Rear block: One and a half storeys with deep catslide roof. Plain tiled roof with gablet to left, half-hipped to right with half-hipped cross wing to right and central gabled dormer. Tall brick ridge stack off-centre to right. Interior: Some evidence of timber-framing on first floor of centre. Later inserted floor with chamfered floor beams. Tiled butcher's shop with decorative landscape patterns and pictures of animals, clock set into wall and light-fitting above, all circa 1930.

Listing NGR: TQ7937037494

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
169110
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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