Whitethorn Cottage
WHITETHORN COTTAGE, BRENCHLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249090
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Whitethorn Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WHITETHORN COTTAGE, BRENCHLEY ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249090
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Whitethorn Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITETHORN COTTAGE, BRENCHLEY 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:
- WHITETHORN COTTAGE, BRENCHLEY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brenchley and Matfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 66301 41997
Details
TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY BRENCHLEY ROAD, HOMEBUSH
6/45 Whitethorn Cottage
II
House, formerly 2 cottages. probably late C17, late C20 alterations. Framed construction, the ground floor underbuilt in Flemish bond brick, the first floor tile-hung; brick stacks.
Plan: The house faces north, fronting the road. The original arrangement appears to have been 2 cottages each with a principal room heated from an end stack and a service room in a rear outshut and entrances into a passage at the centre of the range. The passage partitions have been removed and the house is now entered on the left (east) return.
Exterior: 2 storeys, and attic. Symmetrical 3-bay front. Roof hipped at ends; projecting end stacks with tile-hung set-offs. 2- and 3-light C19 and C20 casement windows, the ground floor windows 2-panes per light.
Interior: Exposed carpentry includes a step-stopped crossbeam in the left hand (east) room. Open fireplaces, the right hand fireplace with a plain lintel and brick jambs. Wall-framing survives to the sole plate on the rear wall, the posts with formed jowls.
Roof: Clasped purlin roof, some of the timbers replaced.
Listing NGR: TQ6630141997
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430927
- 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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