Fountain Cottages
FOUNTAIN COTTAGES, GROOMBRIDGE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260887
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- FOUNTAIN COTTAGES, GROOMBRIDGE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260887
- Date first listed:
- 11-Jan-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Fountain Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- FOUNTAIN COTTAGES, GROOMBRIDGE HILL
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:
- FOUNTAIN COTTAGES, GROOMBRIDGE HILL
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 53233 37934
Details
TQ 53 37 SPELDHURST GROOMBRIDGE HILL (west side), OLD GROOMBRIDGE 16/516 Fountain Cottages 11.1.90 GV II
Pair of small cottages. C18 or early C19. Timber-framed on Flemish bond red brick footings with burnt headers. Most is hung with peg-tile and some of the outshots are weatherboarded. Brick stack with brick chimneyshaft; peg-tile roof.
Plan: Pair of small labourer's cottages on the hillside facing south east towards Groombridge Place (q.v.). Each has a mirror plan of the other. One- room plan with rear lateral stack serving corner diagonal fireplaces. Entrance through lean-to outshots each end and services in C20 lean-to outshots to rear.
Main block is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace.
Exterior: 2-window front of timber casements containing rectangular panes of leaded glass. Similar windows around the other sides although some contain diamond panes. The windows are old, mostly C19, and some maybe original. Main roof is gable-ended. Doorways in end outshots are C20 plank doors.
Interiors: Have plain carpentry detail where exposed. Roof was not available for inspection at the time of this survey.
This attractive pair of small cottages on Groombridge Hill form part of a good group of varied listed buildings above Old Groombridge village.
Listing NGR: TQ5323337934
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 439221
- 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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