Beals Cottages
BEALS COTTAGES, BRENCHLEY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249115
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Beals Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- BEALS COTTAGES, BRENCHLEY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249115
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Beals Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- BEALS COTTAGES, 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:
- BEALS 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 67196 41813
Details
TQ 67 41 BRENCHLEY BRENCHLEY ROAD, MARKET HEATH
15/48 Beals Cottages
GV II
Pair of cottages. Probably C18 or earlier. Ground floor Flemish bond brick, first floor weatherboarded; peg-tile roof; brick stacks.
Plan: Details not described as access to interior unobtainable at time of survey (1989). Pair of double fronted cottages, possibly an extension and conversion of an earlier house. The range faces south and is slightly set back from and above the road. The left hand (west) cottage has a lobby entrance; the right hand cottage has an entrance slightly to right of the right hand axial stack.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Slightly asymmetrical 4-window front. Roof hipped at ends; 2 axial stacks with low brick shafts with corbelled cornices. Both cottages have C19 plank front doors and C18 or early C19 porch hoods carried on moulded brackets. Ground and first floor casement windows, the ground floor windows in probably C18 or early C19 embrasures with brick voussoirs, most of the glazing C20 including metal-framed windows.
Interior: Not accessible at time of survey (1989) but may be of interest.
Listing NGR: TQ6719641813
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 430930
- 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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