Mill Cottage
MILL COTTAGE, PENSHURST ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248951
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MILL COTTAGE, PENSHURST ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1248951
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Mill Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MILL COTTAGE, PENSHURST ROAD
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:
- MILL COTTAGE, PENSHURST ROAD
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 56155 43382
Details
TQ 56 43 BIDBOROUGH PENSHURST ROAD (south side)
11/21 Mill Cottage
GV II
Small house. Probably C18 origins with later C18 or C19 rear addition. Ground floor painted brick, first floor tile-hung; peg-tile roof; brick stacks.
Plan: North-facing with 2 principal rooms at the front heated from end stacks and a later rear outshut with a gabled rear stair projection in the centre. The original arrangement may have been a 2 cell building with a parlour/kitchen at the right end, heated from a large projecting right end stack, and an unheated room at the left - the left end stack is probably a C20 addition. A straight joint indicates that the rear outshut is a later addition.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a gabled roof and a C20 flat-roofed central porch and C20 timber casement windows. The rear elevation has a catslide roof over the outshut and a tile-hung gabled stair projection rising out of the outshut. One small rear window to the outshut, 2 small attic dormers to the rear of the ridge.
Interior: Exposed carpentry in the right hand room, there may be other features of interest.
An attractive small vernacular house.
Group value with Four Winds Windmill (q.v.).
Listing NGR: TQ5615543382
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430781
- 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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