Well Cottage

Well Cottage, Rye Road, Hawkhurst, TN18 5DR

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1084600
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Well Cottage
Statutory Address:
Well Cottage, Rye Road, Hawkhurst, TN18 5DR
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Date:
1999-10-06
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1084600
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Well Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
Well Cottage, Rye Road, Hawkhurst, TN18 5DR

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Well Cottage, Rye Road, Hawkhurst, TN18 5DR

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:
TQ 77976 29769

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 November 2023 to amend the name, address and reformat the text to current standards

TQ 72 NE
12/416

HAWKHURST
RYE ROAD (north side)
Well Cottage

(Formerly listed as Jordans)

GV
II

House. Circa 1700 or earlier. Timber framed and tile hung on red brick ground floor, with plain tiled roof. Two storeys and garret on plinth, with half-hipped roof and stacks to end left and to rear end right. Three two-light wooden casements on first floor, and two on ground floor, with central boarded door off-centre left, with bracketed open pediment-shaped hood. Catslide outshot to rear.

Listing NGR: TQ7734430308

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
169766
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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