Blue Cottage
BLUE COTTAGE, GROOMBRIDGE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240715
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Blue Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BLUE COTTAGE, GROOMBRIDGE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240715
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Blue Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BLUE COTTAGE, GROOMBRIDGE 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:
- BLUE COTTAGE, GROOMBRIDGE 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 53370 38016
Details
TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST GROOMBRIDGE HILL (west side), OLD GROOMBRIDGE 7/520 Blue Cottage
GV II
House, formerly 2 cottages. C17 or early C18 origins, refurbished in late C19, modernised circa 1980. Weatherboarded timber-framing on red brick footings. Brick stack and chimneyshaft. Peg-tile roof.
Plan: House built as a pair of cottages alongside the road and facing south. Whole house has a 3-room plan with lean-to outshots each end. Right end room has end stack. This is the only surviving stack. Formerly a one-room plan cottage right and 2-room cottage to left. Partition between centre and right rooms has now been removed. Present layout is that of the C20 modernisation of a pair of late C19 cottages. The roof structure suggests C17 or early C18 origins but the layout of that building is not known.
2 storeys with lean-to outshots each end.
Exterior: Symmetrical 3-window front of C20 casements with diamond leaded effect. First floor windows are flat-roofed half dormers. 2 front doorways contain late C19 plank doors with coverstrips. Continuous timber hood on shaped brackets over ground floor windows and doors. Similar doors under gables each end into the outshots. Main roof is gable-ended.
Interior: Has plain carpentry detail. On the first floor the tie beams of the trusses are exposed. Mortises in them suggest a higher first floor level formerly. 3-bay roof of extensively mended tie-beam trusses with clasped side purlins and queen struts.
Blue Cottage, very attractive in its own right, forms part of a group with other listed buildings on Groombridge Hill.
Listing NGR: TQ5337038016
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439225
- 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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