WHITETHORN COTTAGES

WHITETHORN COTTAGES, 5 AND 6, BRENCHLEY ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1277614
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: WHITETHORN COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: WHITETHORN COTTAGES, 5 AND 6, BRENCHLEY ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1277614
Date first listed:: 23-Aug-1990
List Entry Name:: WHITETHORN COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: WHITETHORN COTTAGES, 5 AND 6, BRENCHLEY ROAD

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:: WHITETHORN COTTAGES, 5 AND 6, BRENCHLEY ROAD

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 66318 41996

Details

TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY BRENCHLEY ROAD, HOMEBUSH

6/44 Nos 5 and 6 Whitethorn Cottages

GV II

Pair of houses, possibly originally one house. Circa late C17 or earlier. Ground floor Flemish bond brick, first floor rendered over framed construction, which is said to survive on the ground floor (information from the owner); peg-tile roof; brick stacks.

Plan: Details of plan unclear on survey as interior not inspected (1989). The range faces approximately north, fronting the road. 4-rooms wide, the 2 centre rooms probably heated by back-to-back fireplaces in an axial stack, the left hand room heated by an end stack. No 6, to the left, double fronted, No 5 with a front door to the left, apparently into a lobby entrance against the axial stack.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Roof gabled at left end, hipped at right end. Asymmetrical 2:1 window front. C19 or C20 plank front doors with shallow gabled porch hoods on brackets. No 6, to the left, has 2 first and 2 ground floor late Cl9 or C20 casements, 2 panes per light. First floor window left extends across a stud or wall post. No 5 has one first and one ground floor plate glass 2-light casements.

Interior: Not inspected but No 6 has exposed carpentry (information from the owner) and an open fireplace with a replaced lintel.

The range is said to be dated 1623 (information from the owner) and an internal and roof inspection might necessitate revising the dating suggested here.

Listing NGR: TQ6631841996

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Legacy System number:: 430926
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.