Penn Cottage
PENN COTTAGE, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240543
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Penn Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PENN COTTAGE, THE GREEN
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240543
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Penn Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PENN COTTAGE, THE GREEN
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:
- PENN COTTAGE, THE GREEN
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 54362 39307
Details
TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST THE GREEN (east side), LANGTON GREEN 7/486 Penn Cottage
GV II
Small house. Probably mid C19 with some C20 modernisation. Ground floor level is Flemish bond red brick patched with stretcher bond red brick at the south end. Timber-framed above and hung with peg-tile. Brick stack and chimneyshaft with chimneypots. Peg-tile roof.
Plan: 2-room plan cottage facing west toward The Green. Axial stacks between the rooms serves back-to-back fireplaces. Entrance porch on right (south) end recessed from front and rising to small parallel rear service block that end.
2 storeys.
Exterior: House has regular 2-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. Roof is gable-ended. Doorway recessed facing forward on right end; it contains C20 panelled door. Roof rises to 2 storeys and is gable-ended.
Interior: Was not available for inspection at the time of this survey.
Penn Cottage forms part of an attractive and varied group of buildings along the east side of The Green.
Listing NGR: TQ5436239307
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439014
- 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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