Blue Cottage

BLUE COTTAGE, RANDOLPH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1274142
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Blue Cottage
Statutory Address:
BLUE COTTAGE, RANDOLPH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1274142
Date first listed:
20-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Blue Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
BLUE COTTAGE, RANDOLPH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
BLUE COTTAGE, RANDOLPH LANE

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

County:
East Sussex
District:
Rother (District Authority)
Parish:
Playden
National Grid Reference:
TQ 91617 23220

Details

TQ 9023-9123 PLAYDEN RANDOLPH LANE (south side) 50/26 Blue Cottage

II

Pair of cottages, now one house. Dated 1794, altered. Rendered plinth; weatherboard, battered at base; brick outshut. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys; paired 2-bay cottages presenting symmetrical elevation C20 rear outshut. Each former cottage has doorway (now with part-glazed, small-pane, C20 double doors) with window to outside and 2 on 1st floor, all windows having 2-light, small-pane, C20 wooden casements, ground floor openings have pentices. C20 date plaque to centre on 1st floor. Central corniced brick ridge stack with 4 flues. Set back on right side is C20 porch with part-glazed board door protecting present entrance. Rear: catslide roof over outshut is broken to left of centre by C20 tile-hung gable. Interior: stop-chamfered cross-beams; brick fireplaces. The building was used as the Parish Poor House in the early C19.

Listing NGR: TQ9161723220

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
416119
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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