Orchard Cottage
ORCHARD COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262824
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE, CHURCH LANE
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- Reference:
- IOE01/00667/16
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1262824
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Orchard Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE, CHURCH 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:
- ORCHARD COTTAGE, CHURCH 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 63832 44834
Details
TQ 64 SW CAPEL CHURCH LANE
5/245 Orchard Cottage
II
Cottage. Early/mid C17, refurbished and enlarged circa 1970. Timber-framed, the ground floor level is underbuilt with C20 brick and the first floor is hung with peg-tile; brick stack and chimneyshaft; peg-tile roof.
Plan: Now an L-plan house. The front block faces east and has a 2-room plan, one each side of the central entrance hall. One-room plan rear block projects to rear of right end. This layout is essentially the result of the circa 1970 refurbishment. The C17 part is confined to the single room at the left (north) end of the front block. The original house was essentially a one-room plan cottage with a stack on its south end (now an axial stack) and with an integral service lean-to outshot that end. A photograph of circa 1952 in the National Monuments Records shows the cottage in its C17 form before it was extended. 2 storeys.
Exterior: Nearly symmetrical front with 4 ground floor windows and 3 first floor windows, all C20 casements with glazing bars. Central front doorway contains C20 studded plank door behind contemporary gabled porch. This is the C20 doorway. The original was sited at the left end. Roof is hipped both ends.
Interior: The carpentry of the C17 cottage is well-preserved. The ground floor room has a chamfered crossbeam with one step stop. Relined brick fireplace has an oak lintel which is cut back on the soffit but still shows part of the chamfer with scroll stops. Similar crossbeam on the first floor. Roof of 2 uneven bays of tie-beam trusses with clasped side purlins and diminished principals. The larger bay has straight principals and an intermediate A-frame truss.
Orchard Cottage was presumably associated with nearby Tattingbury Farmhouse (q.v.). It is an interesting survival of a very small C17 house.
Listing NGR: TQ6383244834
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433984
- 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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