FIR TREE HOUSE TEA ROOMS

FIR TREE HOUSE TEA ROOMS, PENSHURST ROAD

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1243270
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: FIR TREE HOUSE TEA ROOMS
Statutory Address:: FIR TREE HOUSE TEA ROOMS, PENSHURST ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1243270
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: FIR TREE HOUSE TEA ROOMS
Statutory Address 1:: FIR TREE HOUSE TEA ROOMS, PENSHURST ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:: FIR TREE HOUSE TEA ROOMS, PENSHURST ROAD

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 52614 43787

Details

1. 5280 PENSHURST PENSHURST Penshurst Road (West Side)

Fir Tree House Tea Rooms TQ 5243 23/847

II

2. Picturesque C16 or C17 cottage. Probably framed structure but with C19 alterations and elevational treatment. 2 storeys and dormers. Half-hipped tile roof with ridge stack. Plaster exterior with wide projecting stone plinth with entasis. Studded period door with large bay window to left hand£side with wooden mullions and transoms and continuous tiled hood over window and door and carried round to side elevation. Small bay window of similar design to right hand£side. First Floor. 2 projecting bay windows with casements supported on carved wooden brackets.

Listing NGR: TQ5261443787

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Legacy System number:: 446929
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.