Somerhill Cottages
SOMERHILL COTTAGES, 1-4, CROCKHURST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251316
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Somerhill Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- SOMERHILL COTTAGES, 1-4, CROCKHURST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1251316
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Somerhill Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- SOMERHILL COTTAGES, 1-4, CROCKHURST 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:
- SOMERHILL COTTAGES, 1-4, CROCKHURST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Capel
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 62561 44848
Details
TQ 64 SW CAPEL CROCKHURST STREET
5/249 Nos 1-4 (inclusive) Somerhill Cottages
II
Row of 4 cottages. Late C19 with some C20 extensions. Ground floor level is Flemish bond red brick with decorative burnt headers, timber-framing above is clad with red tile including bands of scallop-shaped tiles; brick stacks and chimneyshafts including several original chimneypots; red tile roof including bands of scallop tiles.
Plan: Row of 4 contemporary cottages facing north and numbering 1-4 from right (west) to left (east). Each cottages has a one-room plan with the front doorway, entrance hall and staircase to one side. Each two are a mirror-plan of the other two. The end cottages (Nos 1 and 4) have doorways towards each end and the middle cottages (Nos 2 and 3) have doorways towards the centre, side by side. Axial stacks between Nos 1 and 2 and Nos 3 and 4 serve back-to- back fireplaces.
All cottages are 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace and there are C20 extensions each end.
Exterior: Overall symmetrical 4-window front of various C20 casements without glazing bars. All 4 front doorways are elliptical arches containing original plank doors with vertical coverstrips. The main roof is gable-ended and includes 4 gabled dormers containing original casement windows with glazing bars. The gables have plain bargeboards with apex pendants.
Interiors: Show no carpentry detail and contain some original joinery.
Listing NGR: TQ6256144848
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433992
- 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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