Kent Cottage
KENT COTTAGE, WILDERNESSE MOUNT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085977
- Date first listed:
- 27-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Kent Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- KENT COTTAGE, WILDERNESSE MOUNT
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1085977
- Date first listed:
- 27-Mar-1991
- List Entry Name:
- Kent Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- KENT COTTAGE, WILDERNESSE MOUNT
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:
- KENT COTTAGE, WILDERNESSE MOUNT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Sevenoaks (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sevenoaks
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 53959 56351
Details
The following building shall be added to the list;
SEVENOAKS WILDERNESSE MOUNT TQ 55 NW 3/201 Sent Cottage II
House. Circa 1930 by M.C. Baillie Scott. Stretcher bond brick, tile hanging and timber framing. Plain tile roof with half-hipped ends. Brick axial stacks.
Plan comprises full depth drawing room on left, and on right the dining room with kitche in front. The entrance hall and stairs are in an outshut at the centre of the front which extends to the right where it contains services and an outhouse.
English Domestic Revival style.
2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical north west front. Timber framing on left with tile hanging above. Main roof carried down as catslide over entrance at centre with panelled door and over outshut on right which extends into an outhouse on the right hand corner. Flat roof dormer at centre and tall stack to right rising from roof. The south east garden front is tile hung on first floor, jettied out over timber frame ground floor recess on right with canted bay window and integral wooden bench; brick on left with French casement. Half-hipped north east and south west gable ends are tile-hung, the north east with timber framed ground floor, the south west brick. All metal-frame casements with leaded panes of 1, 2, 3 and 4 lights.
Interior: Largely unaltered and complete with much of the original oak joinery intact, including staircase, plank doors with wrought iron hinges and panelling etc. The drawing and dining rooms have original brick fireplaces, the former with Tudor arch, the latter, smaller, has raised hearth and elliptical arch.
Listing NGR: TQ5395956351
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 172288
- 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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