Cottage Drum and Monkey House
COTTAGE, GROVEHURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084525
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Cottage Drum and Monkey House
- Statutory Address:
- COTTAGE, GROVEHURST ROAD
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- Reference:
- IOE01/07261/16
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084525
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Cottage Drum and Monkey House
- Statutory Address 1:
- COTTAGE, GROVEHURST ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- DRUM AND MONKEY HOUSE, GROVEHURST 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:
- COTTAGE, GROVEHURST ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- DRUM AND MONKEY HOUSE, GROVEHURST ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Horsmonden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 71172 40160
Details
HORSMONDEN GROVEHURST ROAD TQ 7040-7140 (west side) 7/47 Drum and Monkey House and Cottage 20.10.54 GV II
House, sometime alehouse, now house pair. C15 or earlier, extended and altered C17-C18. Timber framed and exposed large panel frame with arched braces, extended with timber frame clad with weather boarding. Plain tiled roofs. Hall house of 4 framed bays with cross wing. Two storeys with hipped roof with gablets and stacks to rear left, to centre left with crenellated crown and projecting at end right. Half-hipped cross wing projecting at left. Three light casement on first floor of cross wing with 2 single lights below, and main block with central projecting and gabled 2 storey bay window reconstructed C20 except for the gable, and 2 two light wooden casements on first floor and 3 light casement to right on ground floor. Rib and stud door to end right, and early board and stud door to centre left, the doorcase made of durns. Left return with regular fenestration of 3 wooden casements on each floor and central raking porch with door in right side. Catslide outshot on stone base to rear. Interior: the open hall re-opened late C20, with crown post on chamfered tie beam, with arch braced crown post trusses. Large inglenook fireplaces. King post reported in upper chamber, not seen at time of inspection.
Listing NGR: TQ7117240160
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169883
- 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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