Bird-in-hand-cottage
BIRD-IN-HAND-COTTAGE, STONE STREET
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084806
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bird-in-hand-cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BIRD-IN-HAND-COTTAGE, STONE STREET
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08245/25
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084806
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jun-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bird-in-hand-cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIRD-IN-HAND-COTTAGE, STONE STREET
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:
- BIRD-IN-HAND-COTTAGE, STONE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Cranbrook & Sissinghurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 77768 36034
Details
CRANBROOK STONE STREET TQ 7736 SE (north east side) 10/233 20.6.67 Bird-in-Hand Cottage GV II
House, later alehouse and common lodging house, now shop. C16 and C18 cladding. Timber-frame on cement plinth with weatherboarded ground-floor to front, tile-hung above. Some exposed timber-framing on left return front with tile-hung above and in gable. Plain tiled roof. Tall ribbed brick stack to right of centre and end projecting brick stack to left. 2 storeys. Paired sashes on first floor and shop front with central half-glazed door and paired octagonal shop fronts flanking. Right-hand part of this building is obscured by lower C19 block of Waterloo House (not listed). Interior: Substantial evidence of timber-framing. Possible inserted stack with heavy wooden bressummer.
Listing NGR: TQ7776836034
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169083
- 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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