Walnut Tree Cottage
WALNUT TREE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070447
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WALNUT TREE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070447
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Walnut Tree Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WALNUT TREE COTTAGE, HIGH 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:
- WALNUT TREE COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hadlow
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 63410 49841
Details
HADLOW HIGH STREET (north side) TQ 63 49 7/71 Walnut Tree Cottage
GV II
House. Mid/late C17 with some C19 and C20 modernisation. Timber-framed, ground floor is mostly underbuilt with white-washed C19 and C20 brick although some of the frame shows; first floor clad with peg-tile; brick stacks and chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.
Plan: 2-room plan detached cottage set back from the street and end on to it to the south east. The larger front room has a lateral stack on the right (north eastern) side which is now behind secondary service outshots that side. Rear room was originally unheated but now has a C19 rear gable-end stack. The stairs rise alongside the lateral stack. Direct entry into the front room.
2 storeys with attics and lean-to outshots on right side.
Exterior: The windows around the house are of various sizes and are irregularly distributed. Most are C20 replacement casements with glazing bars but the attic window in the rear gable is older and contains rectangular panes of leaded glass. Front doorway behind a small C20 brick porch with low pyramid roof. Roof is gable-ended and on the right side is carried down over the outshots and interrupted by a dormer lighting the stairs.
Interior: The exposed C17 carpentry indicates that the original structure is well preserved. Both ground floor room crossbeams are chamfered with scroll stops and, on the first floor, the wallplate has the same finish. Some of the frame is exposed internally first floor rear; large framing with broad curving tension braces. The jowled wall posts indicate a 2-bay roof but the structure is plastered over in the attics.
Walnut Cottage is an interesting and well-preserved example of a small C17 house. Furthermore it forms part of a group of varied and attractive buildings in the centre of Hadlow.
Listing NGR: TQ6341049841
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179507
- 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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