LITTLE BOTE HOUSE

LITTLE BOTE HOUSE, ETHERINGTON HILL

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240365
Date first listed:: 17-Jul-1990
List Entry Name:: LITTLE BOTE HOUSE
Statutory Address:: LITTLE BOTE HOUSE, ETHERINGTON HILL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1240365
Date first listed:: 17-Jul-1990
List Entry Name:: LITTLE BOTE HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: LITTLE BOTE HOUSE, ETHERINGTON HILL

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: LITTLE BOTE HOUSE, ETHERINGTON HILL

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:: Speldhurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 56181 41729

Details

TQ 54 SE SPELDHURST ETHERINGTON HILL

4/473 Little Bote House

17.7.90 II

Former farmhouse, once cottages. Probably C17, maybe earlier origins, enlarged in late C19, some C20 modernisation. Timber-framed. Ground floor underbuilt with Flemish bond red brick, older brickwork includes burnt headers. Original footings of coursed sandstone. Brick stacks, perhaps the oldest one has a sandstone base, brick chimneyshafts. Peg-tile roof.

Plan: 4-room lobby entrance plan house facing east, built up the hillslope and end onto the road. Main rooms the two to left (south) and a large axial stack between them serves back-to-back fireplaces. Lobby entrance in front of this stack. Room right of centre has rear lateral stack and right end room has projecting end stack. A straight join in the front brick work indicates that the right (northern) 2 rooms were added to the front two or that there were less substantial rooms that end which were later rebuilt. It would seem that the front 2 rooms are the historic core of the house. However, without an internal inspection it is not possible to ascertain room function or determine the historic development of the house.

House is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace and lean-to outshots on the right end and to rear.

Exterior: Irregular 5-window front. First floor windows are C19, 4 16-pane sashes with an 8-pane sash above and to right of the front doorway. Ground floor windows are C20 timber mullion-and-transom windows, some containing rectangular or diamond panes of leaded glass. Front doorway is left of centre. Here a C20 sandstone gabled porch has a Tudor arch containing a reused or reset C19 door panelled in Tudor style. Tall and steeply pitched roof is half-hipped to right and hipped to left. The left (south) end wall, at the downhill end, is tile hung right down to the footings.

Interior: Was not available for inspection at the time of this survey. C17 (maybe earlier) carpentry is suspected.

Listing NGR: TQ5618141729

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Legacy System number:: 438771
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.