Firtree Cottage
FIRTREE COTTAGE, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240547
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Firtree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FIRTREE COTTAGE, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240547
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Firtree Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FIRTREE 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:
- FIRTREE 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:
- TQ5420239228
Details
TQ 53 NW
7/495
SPELDHURST
THE GREEN (west side), LANGTON GREEN
Firtree Cottage
GV
II
Former cottage, now office of the Institute of Cultural Affairs. Early/mid
C19. Ground floor level is red-brown coloured Flemish bond brick with dentil
cornice, timber-framed above and hung with peg-tile. Brick stack and
chimneyshaft with divided flues. Peg-tile roof.
Plan: L-plan house facing east south east, say east, onto The Green. 2-room
plan front block, the left (south) room being the front room of a crosswing
projecting one-room to rear. Axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces
between the 2 blocks. Main entrance in rear angle of the 2 wings and a
secondary one on the south side towards the rear end.
2 storeys.
Exterior: Irregular 2-window front. Right windows are C20 casements with
glazing bars, lower one under low brick segmental arch. Left windows are C19
20-pane sashes, lower one broken forward in a shallow brick bay. Roof is
gable-ended to right and gable-ended crossroof to left. Left end also has C20
casements with glazing bars. Single first floor window towards rear with
small gable over and below it a gabled porch containing C20 part-glazed door
(similar door to rear).
Interior: No exposed carpentry. Roof not inspected.
Firtree Cottage was probably the lodge belonging to nearby Langton House
(q.v.). It is one of an attractive and varied group of listed buildings
fronting onto The Green.
Listing NGR: TQ5420239228
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439021
- 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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