TOWNSEND COTTAGES

TOWNSEND COTTAGES, 1-3, BUCKHURST ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1084769
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:: TOWNSEND COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: TOWNSEND COTTAGES, 1-3, BUCKHURST ROAD

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Date:: 2003-03-03
Reference:: IOE01/09578/35
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1084769
Date first listed:: 22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:: TOWNSEND COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: TOWNSEND COTTAGES, 1-3, BUCKHURST ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: TOWNSEND COTTAGES, 1-3, BUCKHURST ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Frittenden
National Grid Reference:: TQ 81903 40854

Details

FRITTENDEN BUCKHURST ROAD TQ 8040-8140 (south side) 14/21 Nos 1-3 Townsend Cottages GV II Cottage row. C15 and altered and extended late C16 and late C19/ early C20. Timber framed and part exposed with plaster infill, and underbuilt with red and blue brick. Plain tiled roof. Two 2 bay sections; hall house origin. Two storeys, the ground floor clad with brick, with left hand section projecting, with panelled frame and half-hipped roof. Right hand section with close- studding and gabled roof of steeper pitch. Stacks to left in front of ridge, to rear centre right and fine projecting and offset C16 stack with clustered flues at end right. Four wooden casements on 1st floor with mullioned window to centre right. Three segmentally headed 3 light wooden casements on ground floor and central casement. Three panelled doors. Igglesden (vol 16, 1923) reports soot-blackened louvre in roof and moulded door frame.

Listing NGR: TQ8190340854

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

Legacy System number:: 169370
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.