Rose Cottages

ROSE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, CHURCH ROAD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1254226
Date first listed:
24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:
Rose Cottages
Statutory Address:
ROSE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, CHURCH ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1254226
Date first listed:
24-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:
Rose Cottages
Statutory Address 1:
ROSE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, CHURCH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
ROSE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, CHURCH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Kent
District:
Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:
Paddock Wood
National Grid Reference:
TQ 67817 44324

Details

TQ 64 SE PADDOCK WOOD CHURCH ROAD

6/320 Nos 1 and 2 Rose Cottages

II

Pair of cottages. Probably early C19, perhaps a remodelling of an earlier building. Partly rebuilt or extended at the south end in the late C20. Garden wall bond brick; peg-tile roof, half-hipped at ends; brick stacks.

Plan: The cottages face east, overlooking the road. The right hand cottage has a front door to the right, the left hand cottage has a front door towards the centre of the range.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Roof half-hipped at ends; axial stack to right of centre with a C20 shaft; projecting left end stack with a C20 shaft. Asymmetrical 3-window front with early C19 panelled front doors with gabled porch hoods with curly pierced bargeboards. 3 ground floor 2-light cast iron casements with diamond panes and segmental arches. 2 gabled dormers to right of centre, glazed with similar early C19 casements.

Interior: Not inspected but said not to retain exposed carpentry.

Listing NGR: TQ6781744324

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Legacy System number:
437657
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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