Cranbrook Museum Old Rectory Cottage
CRANBROOK MUSEUM, CARRIERS ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084168
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Cranbrook Museum Old Rectory Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CRANBROOK MUSEUM, CARRIERS ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084168
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Cranbrook Museum Old Rectory Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CRANBROOK MUSEUM, CARRIERS ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- OLD RECTORY COTTAGE, CARRIERS 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:
- CRANBROOK MUSEUM, CARRIERS ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- OLD RECTORY COTTAGE, CARRIERS ROAD
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 77537 36187
Details
CRANBROOK CARRIERS ROAD, (WEST TQ 7736 SE SIDE) 10/39 Old Rectory Cottage 9.6.52 and Cranbrook Museum (formerly listed as Old Rectory Cottages) - II
Farmhouse, now Museum and cottage. C16, altered in late C17 and C19. Timber- framed and clad in red brick. Plain tiled hipped roof with brick ridge stack to right of centre and brick end stacks to rear. Return gable at right end of front, plastered. Sloping head dormer to left of front with small central half-timbered gable. Two storeys and attics. Single window in gable to left. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows on first floor and 4 windows on ground floor, all wooden lead-lattice casements. Boarded doors to left and right of centre. Gable with inscriptions CE 1683 WTN 1889. Formerly the Rectory.
Listing NGR: TQ7753736190
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 168890
- 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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