Puckle Cottage
PUCKLE COTTAGE, 91, NORMAN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218795
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Puckle Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PUCKLE COTTAGE, 91, NORMAN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218795
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Puckle Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PUCKLE COTTAGE, 91, NORMAN 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:
- PUCKLE COTTAGE, 91, NORMAN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- West Malling
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 67477 57877
Details
WEST MALLING
TQ6757 NORMAN ROAD 1156-0/2/118 No.91 Puckle Cottage
II
Cottage, formerly Pest House and later 2 cottages. Earliest part comprising 1 room on ground floor and one on 1st floor was built as a Pest House c1760 after a plague in 1756 which killed 64 people in one week in the town and the building was isolated 1/4 mile from the town. This was extended soon afterwards to add 2 more rooms, then in the late C18 an adjoining 2-up 2-down cottage was built and the whole now forms an L-shape. Timber-framed building clad mainly in weatherboarding with stone and red brick to ground floor and right end, and tiled roof with 2 brick chimneystacks. Front has 3 windows with a 12-pane sash, a 9-pane sash and a central sliding casement. Ground floor has C20 modern window, C20 door and French window. Right side elevation has 1 sash to ground floor and extension with 2 casements and left side mid C19 doorcase with penticed weather hood on brackets and 4-panelled door, the top 2 panels glazed. The rear elevation has a weatherboarded mid-C19 outshut with 1 sash with 4 panes, a casement and C20 plank door. Interior has a dining toom ceiling with criss-cross timbers including sections of hop poles and pieces of reused timbers, showing the Pest House was erected in haste and at minimum cost. A plank in the kitchen has the Roman numerals VI to XI in foot measurements and was obviously an C18 measuring rule. This was removed from the 1st floor. 4-plank doors. The 1st floor room above formerly had carvings of names from 1763 on the original doors but these were destroyed in a fire in 1979. By the time of the Tithe Map survey of 1841 the building was no longer in use as a Pest House but was occupied by 2 labourers and their families and known as Pest House Cottages. History of building researched and included in a report by Mr Vernon Leonard, a former owner of the building.
Listing NGR: TQ6747757877
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392430
- 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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