Tower Cottage
TOWER COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084751
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- TOWER COTTAGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084751
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Tower Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- TOWER COTTAGE
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:
- TOWER COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Goudhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 71674 34686
Details
GOUDHURST BEDGEBURY CROSS TQ 73 SW (west side) 9/78 Tower Cottage GV II Estate cottage. Circa 1850. Red brick and sandstone with slated roof. L-shaped with tower on outside of return angle. One storey and attic on plinth with stone quoins to roof with kneelered parapet gables and projecting and offset stack to right with octagonal moulded paired flues. Two moulded gabled half dormers and unappropriate central flush skylight. Two 2-light mullioned stone windows with label hoods and central glazed door in kneelered gabled porch with four centred arched surround and labelled hood. Recessed at right a 2-storey tower, offset on ground floor, with pyramidal roof and narrow lancet-like lights. Rear wing with moulded door and window surrounds with Nos 2 and 3 on the opposite side of the Cross, the best of the group of estate cottages here built for the Bedgebury Estate. The architect may have been Alexander Roos (c.1840) or R C Carpenter (c.1854), both of whom worked on Bedgebury Park at those dates.
Listing NGR: TQ7167434686
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169428
- 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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