Rose Cottage
ROSE COTTAGE, 130, HENWOOD GREEN ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254393
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Rose Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ROSE COTTAGE, 130, HENWOOD GREEN ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1254393
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Rose Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROSE COTTAGE, 130, HENWOOD GREEN 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:
- ROSE COTTAGE, 130, HENWOOD GREEN ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Pembury
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 62997 41242
Details
TQ 64 SW PEMBURY HENWOOD GREEN ROAD
5/371 No 130, Rose Cottage
GV II
Small house. Circa 1700, roof replaced after a fire in the mid C19, minor C20 modernisation. Weatherboarded timber frame; brick stack and chimneyshaft; slate roof.
Plan: 2-room plan cottage facing west. Unheated service room at the left (north end) still serves as a pantry but front section now divided off as an entrance lobby. Larger right room, the former living room/kitchen has a right end stack. Kitchen now in probably secondary outshot to rear.
2 storeys with attics in the roofspace and lean-to outshot across the back. Exterior: 3 ground floor windows and 2 first floor windows, all C20 casements without glazing bars. Centre ground floor window is probably blocking the original front doorway. Present doorway in left end containing C20 plank door. Roof is gable-ended and the left gable includes a C19 fixed pane window containing tiny rectangular panes.
Interior: Has plain carpentry detail. Main ground floor room has a roughly chamfered axial beam and similar axial beam full length of first floor. Ground floor has large brick fireplace with plain oak lintel and first floor fireplace is blocked. Roof replaced in C19 with evidence that the cause was a fire.
Listing NGR: TQ6299741242
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 437889
- 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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