Half Moon Cottage
HALF MOON COTTAGE, HALF MOON LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261897
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Half Moon Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- HALF MOON COTTAGE, HALF MOON LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1261897
- Date first listed:
- 05-Nov-1986
- List Entry Name:
- Half Moon Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- HALF MOON COTTAGE, HALF MOON LANE
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:
- HALF MOON COTTAGE, HALF MOON LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Capel
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 63328 44185
Details
TQ 64 SW CAPEL HALF MOON LANE
5/264 Half Moon Cottage
5.11.86 II
Cottage, originally a small farmhouse and once, apparently, 2 cottages. Mid/late C17, probably divided in the late C18, reunited in the C20 and modernised circa 1986. Timber-framed. Front wall rebuilt in C18 Flemish bond red brick with burnt headers. Rest is hidden behind secondary outshots except for the west end gable which is tile-hung. Brick stack and chimneyshaft; peg- tile roof.
Plan: 3-room plan farmhouse built across the hillslope facing south and uphill. Large central room with rear lateral stack projecting into the rear outshot flanked by smaller unheated rooms.
2 storeys with attics in the roofspace. Secondary lean-to outshots on both ends and across the rear. The rear one is probably the earliest and is terraced down the hillslope lower than the main house.
Exterior: Regular but not symmetrical 3-window front of circa 1986 casements with glazing bars with a fourth in the front of the left outshot. Ground floor windows have low segmental arches over. Front doorway right of centre contains a C20 panelled door behind contemporary gabled porch. Main roof is gable-ended to left and hipped to right. It contains a front gabled dormer and another in the right hip.
Interior: Largely the result of the C20 modernisation at which time some timbers were replaced. Carpentry detail is plain. The large brick fireplace has a chamfered oak lintel. Roof was not inspected but is said to be of side purlin construction.
Listing NGR: TQ6313444020
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 436312
- 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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