Burnt Cottage
BURNT COTTAGE, LANGTON ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260575
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Burnt Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BURNT COTTAGE, LANGTON ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260575
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Burnt Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BURNT COTTAGE, LANGTON 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:
- BURNT COTTAGE, LANGTON ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Speldhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 54864 40412
Details
TQ 54 SN SPELDHURST LANGTON ROAD, SPELDHURST
3/532 Burnt Cottage
II
House. C17 origins, rebuilt and extended in the circa 1840s. Alterations of circa 1960 and 1974. Framed construction, the ground floor underbuilt in brick, the C19 phase brick to the ground floor, the first floor partly tile- hung and partly timber-framed. Peg-tile roof; stacks with brick shafts.
Plan: The house faces north west with an entrance into the north east end. The C17 core is a one-room plan fragment of a larger house at the south west end of the range. This was extended to the north east in the circa 1840s with a service room added to the rear of the C17 core, this was enlarged in circa 1974.
Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Deep roof gabletted and half-hipped at north east end. Asymmetrical 3-window north west front, the C17 core to the right preserving its original framing on the first floor with 2 diagonal braces. To the left the C19 phase is tile-hung on the first floor with bands of scalloped tiles. 3 gables to the front above each window bay: the gables C19, filled with framing with plain bargeboards and apex finials and pendants. 2- and 3- light C20 timber casement windows; hipped roof attic dormer to the right. The left (north east) end has rusticated stone quoins and deep eaves with pierced cusped bargeboards. Tudor style plank front door to left of centre with studded coverstrips. The elevation is timber-framed above the first floor with a 2-tier oriel on a coved base.
Interior: The C17 ground floor room has a chamfered axial beam with canted step stops and chamfered stopped joists. The first floor beam has been removed but the rails each end are in the same style. Before the C19 addition there was a hayloft in the end wall of the C17 house: this is now internal and blocked by a grille of turned bobbin uprights.
Roof: One-bay of the C17 roof survives with clasped side purlins and queen struts with straight windbraces.
Listing NGR: TQ5486440412
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439524
- 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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