Greenholme Wheelwrights Cottage
GREENHOLME, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261034
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Greenholme Wheelwrights Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- GREENHOLME, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261034
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Greenholme Wheelwrights Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- GREENHOLME, THE GREEN
- Statutory Address 2:
- WHEELWRIGHTS COTTAGE, THE GREEN
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:
- GREENHOLME, THE GREEN
- Statutory Address:
- WHEELWRIGHTS COTTAGE, THE GREEN
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 54337 39231
Details
TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST THE GREEN (east side), LANGTON GREEN 7/483 Greenholme and Wheelwrights Cottage
GV II
2 cottages, probably one house originally. Probably late C17/early C18 with mid/late C19 workhop (now garage). Modernised circa 1985. House is timber- framed. Ground floor level is underbuilt with stretcher bond brick, frame above hung withpeg-tile, bricks tacks and chimneyshafts. Peg-tile roof. Former workshop is Flemish bond red brick with peg-tile roof.
Plan: Pair of cottages occupying a late C17/early C18 3-room plan house facing west north west, say north, onto The Green. Greenholme occupies the left one-room section which has a rear lateral stack (probably an insertion). Wheelwright Cottage occupies the rest. Centre room has original rear lateral stack and the right end room has a probably secondary end stack. Large workshop adjoining right (south) end.
House is 2 storeys with attics in the roofspace.
Exterior: House has regular but not symmetrical 4-window front of C20 casements with rectangular panes of leaded glass. Both cottage front doorways contain C20 plank-doors with coverstrips under gabled hoods on raking struts. Tall roof is half-hipped both ends and contains a single front gabled dormer.
The gabled front of the workshop contains a set of part-glazed double doors with long strap hinges alongside a sash window without glazing bars under a low segmental brick arch. Gable has decorative pattern of burnt headers and contains a bullseye window.
Interior: Was not available for inspection at the time of this survey although some plain carpentry detail was seen.
This pair of cottages form part of an attractive and varied group of listed buildings fronting The Green.
Listing NGR: TQ5433739231
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438781
- 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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