Old Forge Cottage
OLD FORGE COTTAGE, RYE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123725
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Old Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OLD FORGE COTTAGE, RYE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1123725
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Old Forge Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD FORGE COTTAGE, RYE ROAD
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:
- OLD FORGE COTTAGE, RYE ROAD
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 77605 29905
Details
HAWKHURST RYE ROAD TQ 72 NE (north side) 12/413 Old Forge Cottage - II Forge and cottage. Dated 1874. Richard Norman Shaw, architect for William Cotterill of Tongswood. Tile hung on first floor, red brick on ground floor with weather-boarded rear wing. Plain tiled roof. Two storeys with jetty on heavy brackets with tall steeply pitched roof, hipped to left, half-hipped to right, and with tall moulded stack to left. Two 4-light wooden casements on first floor, and large mullioned windows on ground floor, ranged around the left hand corner. Boarded door to right, and half-glazed door in left return. Rear weather-boarded range, the forge building itself, now incorporated into the cottage.
Listing NGR: TQ7610330541
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169763
- 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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