Old Chegs
OLD CHEGS, ASHES LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070459
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Old Chegs
- Statutory Address:
- OLD CHEGS, ASHES LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1070459
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Old Chegs
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD CHEGS, ASHES LANE
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:
- OLD CHEGS, ASHES LANE
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 62221 49579
Details
HADLOW ASHES LANE TQ 64 NW 6/2 Old Chegs - II
House, once 2 cottages, originally a farmhouse. Mid/late Cl7, 2 cottages in the C19, reunited and refurbished circa 1960. Ground floor of Flemish bond brick with decorative use of burnt headers; timber-framing above clad with peg-tile; brick stacks and chimneyshafts; peg-tile roof.
Plan and Development: L-plan house. The main block faces south. It has a 3- room plan. The centre and right (east) end rooms have been knocked together and there is a projecting gable-end stack. The left room (now the entrance hall) has an axial stack. Both these stacks are C19. It seems there was formerly an axial stack between the centre and right rooms; it still survives at first floor level. 2-room plan block projecting to the rear of the left end rebuilt and enlarged in c20. It contains the present kitchen. 2 storeys with attics in roofspace.
Exterior: Regular, not quite symmetrical 3-window front of C19 casements with lattice-pattern glazing bars. Both former front doorways (to cottages) blocked and entry now through C20 door in left (west) end behind gabled porch. The main roof is half-hipped both ends. A dormer in the centre to rear lights the attic stair. Rear block has C20 casements with diamond leaded pane effect.
Interior: The ground floor shows mostly C19 and C20 features. The headbeam of the C17 partition between the centre and right rooms remains and shows evidence of doorways each end. The chamfered and scroll-stopped axial beam to right also shows evidence that it took a partition below. The C17 structure survives nearly complete on the first floor and much is exposed. The outer walls have straight braces and the rear wall has evidence in the centre of small, diamond-mullion windows. The right end room fireplace has a plain oak lintel and the original attic stair rises against the chimneyshaft; its steps made of quarter-log baulks (a rare survival). The attics are plastered and therefore the roof structure is hidden; it is some kind of side purlin construction.
Listing NGR: TQ6222149579
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179438
- 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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