South Cottage
SOUTH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249643
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- South Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SOUTH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1249643
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- South Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOUTH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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:
- SOUTH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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 67945 41795
Details
TQ 67 41 BRENCHLEY HIGH STREET
15/94 South Cottage 20.10.54 GV II
House. C16 or earlier origins, remodelled in the C17, roof raised in the late C19. Framed construction, the first floor weatherboarded, the ground floor brick; peg-tile roof; brick stack.
Plan: South facing, the present arrangement is a single depth main block, 2 rooms wide with a cross passage entrance to left of centre, both front rooms heated from end stacks. Various rear additions. The size of the wall-framing on the rear wall suggests that the house dates from the C16. The cross passage is probably an C18 arrangement.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Roof gabled at ends; massive projecting left end stack with a tall shaft and tile-hung set-offs. Asymmetrical 3-window front with a gabled C19 porch to left of centre with a tiled roof and lattice sides; C20 plank and cover strip front door. 2 early C19 20-pane sashes to ground floor right, to the left of the porch an early C19 canted bay with a 24-pane sash in the centre and 8-pane sashes in the outer lights. 3 first floor 3-light casements, 2 panes per light in probably C18 moulded frames; 2 late C19 gabled attic dormers with 2-light casements with glazing bars.
Interior: Ground floor left has a 4-panel ceiling of probably C17 intersecting beams, the left hand partition of the cross passage post-dates the ceiling; open fireplace with stone jambs. The wall framing of the left end of the house includes curved tension braces and jowled wall posts. Evidence that the right hand end of the house has been rebuilt.
Roof: Late C19. The present owner has a C19 photograph showing the house before the roof was raised.
South Cottage is an attractive and unspoiled evolved traditional house in a crucial position in an outstanding village.
Listing NGR: TQ6794541795
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431804
- 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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