Wrangling Cottage
WRANGLING COTTAGE, FURNACE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263698
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Wrangling Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WRANGLING COTTAGE, FURNACE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263698
- Date first listed:
- 24-Aug-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Wrangling Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WRANGLING COTTAGE, FURNACE 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:
- WRANGLING COTTAGE, FURNACE 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 69630 41746
Details
TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY FURNACE LANE
6/80 Wrangling Cottage
II
Small house. Circa 1700 with circa mid C20 additions. Framed construction, clad in weatherboarding; peg-tile roofs; brick stack.
Plan: North facing. 2 bays. The main block is 2-cell with a large heated room to the east and an unheated service end containing the stair and now divided axially into 2 rooms. Entrance on the front into the unheated end. An outshut has been added at the east end, probably in the C18. C20 addition, triangular on plan, adjoins the front left (north east) corner, C20 porch addition.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Roof gabled at left end, half-hipped at right end; massive left end stack with a tall shaft and corbelled brick cornice. Asymmetrical 2-window front with probably C19 2-light casements with glazing bars. C20 porch with a lean-to roof. The rear elevation preserves one ground and one first floor 3-light C18 mullioned window with sunk bead mouldings to the mullions and hand-made window furniture.
Interior: The heated room has a crossbeam with runout stops, exposed joists and a fireplace lintel with scroll stops. The fireplace has a keeping place and evidence of a former bread oven. The wall framing is largely intact, the wallposts with formed jowls.
Roof: Clasped purlin construction, augmented with a king post and strut arrangement on the first floor axial ceiling beam over the heated room. The roof timbers include some re-used sooted rafters. The collar over the unheated end is steeply-cambered.
Listing NGR: TQ6963041746
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 431656
- 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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