RECTORY COTTAGES

1 AND 2 RECTORY COTTAGES, MAIN STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1273075
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: RECTORY COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: 1 AND 2 RECTORY COTTAGES, MAIN STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1273075
Date first listed:: 16-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:: RECTORY COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: 1 AND 2 RECTORY COTTAGES, MAIN STREET

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1 AND 2 RECTORY COTTAGES, MAIN STREET

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Sevenoaks (District Authority)
Parish:: Penshurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ5272143763

Details

1. 5280 TQ 5243 23/824

PENSHURST PENSHURST Main Street (South Side)

Rectory Cottages (Nos 1 & 2)

II GV

2. Late mediaeval timber framed building, possibly a small hall. Later front elevation 2 storeys. Ground floor brick. 1st floor plastered. Ridge tile roof (one end hipped). Ridge stack. 2 plain doors with carved bracketed hoods over. Leaded casement windows. Side elevation. Half-timbered and framework exposed. Plaster infilling and stone plinth. Inside some exposed timber and remains of inglenook.

Nos 1 & 2 (Rectory Cottages) The Leicester Arms Hotel, Nos 1 & 2 (Leicester House) and The Buxton House Stores form a group.

Listing NGR: TQ5272143763

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Legacy System number:: 446498
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.