The Cottage
THE COTTAGE, GROOMBRIDGE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240873
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, GROOMBRIDGE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240873
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE 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:
- THE 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 53258 37961
Details
TQ 53 37 SPELDHURST GROOMBRIDGE HILL (west side), OLD GROOMBRIDGE 16/518 The Cottage
GV II
House. According to the owner a resident of Old Groombridge had his grandmother's diary which mentions a visit to the house when under construction in 1835. Renovated circa 1980 with new kitchen extension. Coursed sandstone with sandstone ashlar dressings. Stone or brick stacks with banded stone chimneyshafts. Peg-tile roof.
Plan: Basically a T-plan house facing south east. Main rooms in a 2-room plan crosswing projecting forward from left (south west) end of front. Both rooms heated by lateral stacks backing onto the entrance hall which separates principal rooms from former kitchen block with projecting gable-end stack. Present kitchen in circa 1980 extension to rear of original kitchen.
2 storeys with cellar under front end of parlour crosswing.
Exterior: Irregular 1:1:1-window front. Most of the windows are C20 replacement casements but some originals survive with margin panes. First floor window to left (in front end of crosswing) is a canted bay window with sandstone roof and base, both tapering in a curve to a ball. There is a smaller version over the front doorway. Other windows have plain stone architraves. Doorway up 3 stone steps contains original panelled door with full height side lights and overlight behind a C20 ornamental trellis porch. Front end of crosswing is gable-ended, so too is entrance bay and there is a small gable over the right first floor window, all have plain bargeboards with apex pendants. Flat band projects at first floor level and carries on round the left end across the garden (south west) front. This is 3 bays each with a gable over. Right 2 bays in same style as entrance front including French windows in the centre bay. Left bay contains paired 12-pane sashes under flat stone arches. 3 gables over. C20 extension to rear in a sympathetic style with Gothic-style glazing bars to the windows.
Interior: Contains a great deal of C19 joinery detail. Stairs rise to right of front doorway; open string with shaped brackets, stick balusters and mahogany handrail. Roof of tie-beam trusses with clasped side purlins but is C19.
The Cottage forms part of an attractive gorup of listed buildings on Groombridge Hill overlooking Groombridge Place (q.v.) and Old Groombridge village.
Listing NGR: TQ5325837961
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439223
- 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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