SWINGLE SWANGLE COTTAGES

SWINGLE SWANGLE COTTAGES, BRENCHLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249093
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: SWINGLE SWANGLE COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: SWINGLE SWANGLE COTTAGES, BRENCHLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1249093
Date first listed:: 24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: SWINGLE SWANGLE COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: SWINGLE SWANGLE COTTAGES, BRENCHLEY 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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Location

Statutory Address:: SWINGLE SWANGLE COTTAGES, 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 66614 41806

Details

TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY BRENCHLEY ROAD, WALNUT TREE

6/51 Swingle Swangle Cottages

GV II

Row of cottages, formerly almshouses. Probably early C19 with some C20 alteration. English and Flemish bond brick with plastered dressings in imitation of stone; slate roof; brick stacks.

Plan: Row of 4 cottages on the roadside, facing north east. The outer cottages have doors to the right, the 2 centre cottages have adjacent doors. The left hand (south) cottage is separately-roofed, with a wider span and an axial stack. 2 axial stacks to the rest of the range, one with a corbelled brick cornice. Interior not inspected, details of plan unclear at time of survey (1989).

Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 5-window front. The doorways all preserve attractive plaster detail, the jambs rendered, the lintels plastered to imitate stone voussoirs, including incised panels and imitation keystones with rusticated ornament. The original ground floor windows have similar decoration over the lintels, shoulderedd architraves and sill brackets. First floor windows with eared shouldered architraves. The left hand block is Flemish bond brick with imitation quoins in plaster at the abutment with the adjacent block. The left hand door is a C20 replacement, the 2 centre doors are C19 and panelled; plank door to the right. 3 original ground floor 16- pane C19 sash windows. 2 windows have unfortunately been replaced by a C20 bow and a C20 bay window. 5 first floor 16-pane C19 sashes.

Interior: Not inspected.

Enough of the original external detail survives to offset the unfortunate window replacements.

Group value with Walnut Tree Cottage and the Chapel (q.v.) on the opposite side of the road.

Listing NGR: TQ6661441806

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Legacy System number:: 430933
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.