Priests Cottage the Forge
PRIESTS COTTAGE, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190656
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Priests Cottage the Forge
- Statutory Address:
- PRIESTS COTTAGE, THE STREET
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- Date:
- 1999-08-21
- Reference:
- IOE01/99020/12
- Rights:
- © Mr John H. Chapman. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1190656
- Date first listed:
- 11-Nov-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Priests Cottage the Forge
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIESTS COTTAGE, THE STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE FORGE, THE 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:
- PRIESTS COTTAGE, THE STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE FORGE, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Surrey
- District:
- Mole Valley (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Betchworth
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 21115 49689
Details
BETCHWORTH C.P. THE STREET TQ 24NW (West Side) 6/32 Priests Cottage and 11/11/66 The Forge GV II
House. C17 with C19 additions and alterations. Timber framed, clad to front and parts of rear in colourwashed roughcast with tile hung gable, some in semi- circle pattern, and plain tiled roofs. Two storeys with attic on gable to left, and in gable on right hand return front. Square stack to junction of gable and main range, offset end stack to right hand return front, now enclosed in pentice extension. Mixed casement fenestration including one large 5-light window to first floor left of centre, smaller 4-light window to right of centre and C19, leaded 3-light window to right. Three, 3-light windows on the ground floor. Irregular fenestration on wing to left with two windows on the first floor and one below. Half-glazed door to centre under braced gable hood. Half-glazed door under drip board to ground floor left of gable. Rear - pentice extension and hip-roofed, tile-hung square extension, possibly a stair-vice.
Listing NGR: TQ2111949708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 290141
- 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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