The Cottage
THE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243259
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243259
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE COTTAGE, MAIN STREET
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, MAIN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Sevenoaks (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Penshurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 52660 43744
Details
1. 5280 PENSHURST PENSHURST Main Street (South Side)
The Cottage TQ 5243 23/829 10.9.54.
II GV
2. Queen Anne elevational facade masking C16 framed structure. 2 storeys and dormers. Ridge tile roof and centre stack. Brick with brick band. Ornamental 3 centred brick moulding over door (probably C19). Ground floor: Restored panelled doorway with top lights. Egg and dart moulding around chamfered edges of panels. On either side of door, 2 octagon projecting bay windows with sash bars and supported on carved wooden brackets. Projecting hood over door supported on carved wooden brackets resting on stone corbels. Continuous dentilled moulding forming cornice to bay windows and hood. First floor: 2 sash windows in exposed frames. Dentilled frieze and cornice supporting gutter. Two hip tiled dormers with heavy oversailing moulded eaves. Casement windows. Glazing bars to all windows.
Quaintways Tea Rooms, The Cottage, Colquhoun House and Longford form a group with Kirkwood Garden Shop and La Petite Hair Salon.
Listing NGR: TQ5266043744
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 446505
- 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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