Bidborough Ridge Cottage
BIDBOROUGH RIDGE COTTAGE, BIDBOROUGH RIDGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248824
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Bidborough Ridge Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BIDBOROUGH RIDGE COTTAGE, BIDBOROUGH RIDGE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248824
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Bidborough Ridge Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BIDBOROUGH RIDGE COTTAGE, BIDBOROUGH RIDGE
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:
- BIDBOROUGH RIDGE COTTAGE, BIDBOROUGH RIDGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Bidborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 57212 43741
Details
TQ 54 SE BIDBOROUGH BIDBOROUGH RIDGE
4/1 Bidborough Ridge Cottage
II
House. Circa late C17/early C18 with a 1940s rear wing-and a 1970s addition on the left (west) end. Timber-framed construction, weatherbGirded on the front elevation, the rear elevation tile-hung to the first floor above a 1940s outshut; peg-tile roof; brick.stacks, 1940s addition brick and tile; 1970s addition weatherboarded to the first floor, rendered below.
Plan: Overall L plan. The south-facing early range is single depth, 3 rooms wide with what may be an original outshut at the right end. The 1940s addition is a rear right (north east) wing at right angles to the main range; the 1970s addition adjoins the early range at the left (west) end and is slightly set back from it. 1940s rear left outshut to the main range. The early range has end stacks (left end stack truncated) and an axial stack (fireplace blocked), the position of the original entrance is unclear but may have been to the right of centre where there is now a small window in the front elevation. The right hand room was the kitchen, the fireplace had a bread oven (information from owners), the outshut probably a pantry.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 3 window front plus one window to the outshut. Roof hipped at the left end and gabled at the right end; right hand stack to the main range with a handmade brick shaft. 3 first floor and 3 ground floor one-, 2 and 3-light cast iron casement windows, probably dating from the early C19. The one-light window on the ground floor may mark the position of the original front door.
Interior: Parts of the frame are visible internally, especially in the right hand (east) room, which has had the first floor removed and is now single- storey but ceiled below the apex. There are straight up braces from the middle rail to the wall plate and iron strapped joints to the cross partitions. The front wall post of the first partition from the left (west) has a chamfered, tapered, jowl; there is evidence of an original former window on the rear wall, first floor, which is now enclosed by the 1940s wing. The centre ground floor room has exposed joists.
Listing NGR: TQ5561443712
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430571
- 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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