Priestwood Cottage
PRIESTWOOD COTTAGE, OLD HOUSE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240939
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Priestwood Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PRIESTWOOD COTTAGE, OLD HOUSE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1240939
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Priestwood Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PRIESTWOOD COTTAGE, OLD HOUSE LANE
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:
- PRIESTWOOD COTTAGE, OLD HOUSE LANE
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 53440 39570
Details
TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST OLD HOUSE LANE, ASHURST PARK
7/539 Priestwood Cottage
II
Small house, formerly on the Ashurst Park Estate. C17 core refurbished and enlarged in the early C19, some C20 modernisation. Ground floor level is brick; C17 section is English bond, the C19 extensions in Flemish bond brick, both including burnt headers. Timber framing above is hung with peg-tile in the C17 section, exposed in the C19 section. Brick stack, maybe on a stone base, and brick chimneyshaft. Peg-tile roof.
Plan: L-plan house facing south with a 3-room plan. The left (west) end room is built like a crosswing projecting a short distance forward. An axial stack between the left and centre rooms probably serves back-to-back fireplaces. Unheated right end service room. Present layout is the result of the C19 modernisation of a C17 2-room plan house. The centre heated room is C17 and the left end room was probably an unheated service room. In the C19 this service end room was enlarged and probably given a fireplace built onto the back of the old stack. The right end room was also added in the C19.
Exterior: Irregular 1:1:1-window front of C19 and C20 replacement casements containing diamond panes of leaded glass. Front doorway is right of centre and contains a C19 plank door with coverstrips. The first floor front end of the left crosswing is jettied out on a moulded timber bressummer. It is gabled and filled with ornamental timber framing with close studding and curving braces. A panel below the window includes the monogram GF in large letters. Plain bargeboards to the gable. First floor chamber at the right end is timber framed and also jetties forward on a moulded bressummer and has a gable over. It is less ornate than the framing the other end. Main roof is hipped to left and gable-ended to right.
Interior: Was not available for inspection at the time of this survey but the owner claims that C17 carpentry shows in the centre of the house.
Listing NGR: TQ5344039570
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439531
- 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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