April Cottage the Corner House the Cottage
APRIL COTTAGE, 1, COMMON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067782
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- List Entry Name:
- April Cottage the Corner House the Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- APRIL COTTAGE, 1, COMMON ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/09003/15
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1067782
- Date first listed:
- 19-May-1986
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Apr-1996
- List Entry Name:
- April Cottage the Corner House the Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- APRIL COTTAGE, 1, COMMON ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE CORNER HOUSE, COMMON ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- THE CORNER HOUSE, THE STREET
- Statutory Address 4:
- THE COTTAGE, COMMON ROAD
- Statutory Address 5:
- THE COTTAGE, THE 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:
- APRIL COTTAGE, 1, COMMON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE CORNER HOUSE, COMMON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE CORNER HOUSE, THE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, COMMON ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- THE 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 79294 37542
Details
TQ 7837 CRANBROOK THE STREET/COMMON ROAD
Sissinghurst
1608/8/253
The Corner House,
The Cottage and
19.5.86 April Cottage (1 Common Road)
GV II
Former farmhouse, now 3 cottages. Late C16 with C18 wing projecting to right. Timber-framed with red and blue brick ground floor and tile-hung first floor. Plain tiled half-hipped roof to main wing (The Corner House) with lower hipped wing projecting to right. (The Cottage and April Cottage) Two storeys with tall stack off-slope to front of right of main first floor at end of wing and one window on ground floor and one window on re-entrant flank of wing. Mixture of C19 and C20 casements and sashes to ground floor of the wing. Entrance in re-entrant flank of wing (The Corner House); boarded door with C19 gabled trellised porch to left of centre on main wing, (The Cottage) and cambered doorcase in lean-to to April Cottage.
Listing NGR: TQ7929437542
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169104
- 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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