LOWER MEAD COTTAGE AND THE FIRS

LOWER MEAD COTTAGE, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1258596
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: LOWER MEAD COTTAGE AND THE FIRS
Statutory Address:: LOWER MEAD COTTAGE, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2001-06-30
Reference:: IOE01/07292/16
Rights:: © Mr John Clark. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1258596
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: LOWER MEAD COTTAGE AND THE FIRS
Statutory Address 1:: LOWER MEAD COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:: THE FIRS, HIGH STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: LOWER MEAD COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:: THE FIRS, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Kent
District:: Sevenoaks (District Authority)
Parish:: Leigh
National Grid Reference:: TQ 54496 46401

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 23/01/2013

TQ 5446 19/693 5280

LEIGH High Street (South side) Lower Mead Cottage and The Firs

(Formerly listed as Oak Cottage and The Firs)

II

Early C20 neo-Tudor pair, possibly by Sir Ernest George. 2 storeys and attic, 3 bays, stepped back towards right. Tiled roofs. Tile-hung blank lst floor in right bay. Other bays gabled, with oversailing gable ends and lst floors on moulded beams. Geometrical half timbering, with roughcast filling, to 1st floor. Oriel£bay windows. Red brick ground floor with square bay at left. In centre porch built out to overhang of 1st floor. One tiny gabled dormer and tall brick stacks. Lower Mead Cottage has a pent porch on left return.

Listing NGR: TQ5449646401

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Legacy System number:: 445285
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.