The Thatch Cottage
THE THATCH COTTAGE, SHIPBOURNE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070456
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Thatch Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE THATCH COTTAGE, SHIPBOURNE ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070456
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Thatch Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE THATCH COTTAGE, SHIPBOURNE ROAD
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:
- THE THATCH COTTAGE, SHIPBOURNE ROAD
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 59765 50423
Details
HADLOW SHIPBOURNE ROAD, DENE PARK TQ 55 SE 2/93 The Thatch Cottage - II
Cottage. Maybe C18 origins, probably early C19. Timber-framing on brick footings, clad with painted weatherboarding; C19 brick stack and chimneyshaft; thatch roof.
Plan: 2-room plan cottage ornee facing north. Axial stack between the 2 rooms. Larger room to right is the parlour with stairs rising in rear outer corner (apparently replacing one rising alongside the stack). Kitchen to left with entrance hall behind and doorway in left end wall. Integral outshots to rear.
2 storeys with single storey outshots.
Exterior: Front has 2 ground floor and one first floor window, 2 windows each floor in the left and one each floor in the right end. Most are C20 casements and some contain diamond panes of leaded glass. However the ground floor front window and the first floor windows each end are original casements with iron glazing bars featuring a Gothick pattern of trefoil-headed panes. Doorway in left end contains a 2-flap plank door behind a thatch-roofed gabled porch on plain posts. Roof is gable-ended to right, half-hipped to left and to rear is carried down over the outshots.
Interior: Shows plain carpentry detail. Some of the framing is exposed; relatively slender scantling with straight down braces. 2-bay roof is hidden by later plaster but some straight wind braces are exposed.
Listing NGR: TQ6302849763
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179529
- 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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