11 Bird-In-Hand Street
11, Bird-In-Hand Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1261076
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 11 Bird-In-Hand Street
- Statutory Address:
- 11, Bird-In-Hand Street
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1261076
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1954
- List Entry Name:
- 11 Bird-In-Hand Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 11, Bird-In-Hand Street
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:
- 11, Bird-In-Hand Street
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 52950 37751
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 26 October 2021 to reformat text to current standards
TQ 53 37
16/456
SPELDHURST
OLD GROOMBRIDGE
BIRD-IN-HAND STREET
No 11
20.10.54
GV
II*
Cottage. Probably late C17/early C18, minor C19 and C20 modernisations. Tall plinth of coursed sandstone. Rest is timber-framed; the ground floor level is weatherboarded and hung with peg-tile above. Brick stack, probably with stone base, and brick chimneyshaft. Peg-tile roof.
Plan: two-room plan cottage facing north east. The larger right (north west) room has a projecting gable-end stack with a smaller former service room to left.
two storeys with attics in the roofspace and a cellar under the left end. Various C19 and C20 single storey extensions, one on right end and others to rear.
Exterior: Regular but not symmetrical three-window front of C19 and C20 casements containing diamond panes of leaded glass (some of the frames may be earlier). Front doorway right of centre up a flight of seven stone steps. It contains a plain plank door. Tall stone plinth contains a boarded hatch to the cellar towards the left end. Roof is gable-ended.
Interior: Is mostly the result of superficial C19 and C20 modernisations. The fireplace is blocked and most of the carpentry is hidden behind plaster. The main ground floor has a chamfered axial beam. Roof structure in the attic is boxed in.
No 11 is an attractive and unspoilt cottage in its own right but also is one of a superlative group of similar buildings associated with Groombridge Place (q.v.) which make up Old Groombridge village.
Listing NGR: TQ5295237749
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 438599
- 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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