Ivy Cottage
IVY COTTAGE, LOWER STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248190
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Ivy Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- IVY COTTAGE, LOWER STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248190
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Ivy Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- IVY COTTAGE, LOWER 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:
- IVY COTTAGE, LOWER STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hildenborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ5468548154
Details
HILDENBOROUGH
LOWER STREET (south side)
TQ 54 NE
5/148
Ivy Cottage
II
Small house. Circa mid C19, built for the Leigh estate. Flemish bond brick
to the ground floor, the first floor tile-hung with some blue diapering in the
tile-hanging; peg-tile roof; brick stacks. Tudor style.
Plan: A roadside house facing east on to Lower Street. Overall T plan, the
main block with a crosswing at the left (south) end; entrance on the east
front between the crosswing and main block. Probably 2-cell, a rear lateral
stack heating the main block.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 2-window front, the gable of the crosswing
to the left with, alongside it, a 2-storey gabled porch, the first floor
jettied. The porch has pierced, cusped bargeboards and the gable is filled
with imitation timber framing. The porch was probably originally open-fronted
but now has a late C19 or C20 plank outer door. The crosswing gable has
pierced cusped bargeboards and a pendant at the apex. Its ground floor window
is an original 4-light transomed casement with polygonal iron panes, the 2-
light first floor window has been reglazed in the C20. To the right of the
porch there is one original 2-light ground floor casement with sexagonal iron
panes. The right return has one original ground floor window matching those
on the front and a first floor oriel on brackets, reglazed in the C20, with a
pentice roof. Matching bargeboards to the right gable end.
Interior: Not inspected but may retain original features.
The Leigh Estate, developed by Samuel Morley, Liberal M.P. and hosiery
millionaire, employed both George Devey and George and Peto on the estate
houses and cottages.
Listing NGR: TQ5468548154
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179582
- 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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