Gatehouse Cottages
GATEHOUSE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, FAIRMANS LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263696
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- GATEHOUSE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, FAIRMANS LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263696
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Gatehouse Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- GATEHOUSE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, FAIRMANS 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:
- GATEHOUSE COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, FAIRMANS LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Brenchley and Matfield
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 67855 41446
Details
TQ 67 41 BRENCHLEY FAIRMANS LANE
15/73 Nos 1 and 2 Gatehouse Cottages
GV II
Pair of cottages. Probably C18. Ground floor stretcher bond brick, first floor framed construction clad in weatherboarding. Peg-tile roof; brick stacks.
Plan: East facing and forming a group with No 3, at right angles and sited to the south. Pair of small 2-cell cottages with outshuts, the outer principal rooms heated from end stacks. No 2 only inspected internally. This has a heated room to the left (south) and smaller service room to the right, adjoining No 1. The rear outshut contains the original stair. Direct entrance into the heated room, C20 rear left (south west) addition. No 1 possibly mirror plan.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Almost symmetrical 4-window front, the roof gabled at ends, the left end stack (No 2) massive and projecting with a tile-hung set- off. Each cottage has a C19 plank door, slightly towards the centre of the range and 1-, 2- and 3-light small-pane C19 and C20 timnber casements.
Interior: No 2 has a large open fireplace with a re-used timber lintel. Plain exposed carpentry to ground and first floor ceilings. The wall-framing exposed on the first floor is of slender scantling with plain wall posts and evidence of the extensive re-use of old timbers. The stair in the outshut consists of simple quadrant timber baulks fixed to a ladder frame.
Roof: Not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ6785541446
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431649
- 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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