Little Bote House
LITTLE BOTE HOUSE, ETHERINGTON HILL
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438771
- 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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