Four Wents and Four Wents Cottage
FOUR WENTS COTTAGE, WATER LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084581
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Four Wents and Four Wents Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FOUR WENTS COTTAGE, WATER LANE
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00574/24
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084581
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Four Wents and Four Wents Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOUR WENTS COTTAGE, WATER LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- FOUR WENTS, WATER 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:
- FOUR WENTS COTTAGE, WATER LANE
- Statutory Address:
- FOUR WENTS, WATER LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hawkhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ7659632773
Details
TQ 73 SE
10/471
HAWKHURST
WATER LANE
(west side)
Tour Wents and Four Wents Cottage
GV
II
House, sometime Inn, now house pair. C15, altered C16 and c.1681. Timber framed
and exposed with plaster infill, part clad on ground floor with red brick,
sandstone and weather boarding, with return elevation part tile hung. Plain tiled
roof. Hall house and cross-wing origin. Two storeys and attic on plinth, with
small panel frame to end left bay, and ground floor, close studded to right on 1st
floor. Jettied to right hand bays and returned to right end left bay recessed.
Hipped roof overall with gablets and 2 hipped dormers. Stacks to centre left and
clustered to right on return wing. Four wooden casements on each floor of
irregular sizes and boarded doors to right in gabled porch, and to left in large
gabled porch with sandstone base, side lights and painted plaster lozenge
decoration in gable and date: B
C E
1681.
Interior: (Four Vents only): Stack with sandstone base, inglenook and in-situ
domed bread oven. Crown post roof with tall, unmoulded posts braced eccentrically
to collar purlin and tie beams, all soot blackened. The building may have
originated as a Wealden with single jettied wing (ie combined service/solar)
extended at lower end by close studded and continuous jettied cross-wing.
Listing NGR: TQ7659632773
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169822
- 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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