Church Cottage

Church Cottage, Frittenden, TN17 2DD

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1320028
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Church Cottage
Statutory Address:
Church Cottage, Frittenden, TN17 2DD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1320028
Date first listed:
22-Jun-1989
List Entry Name:
Church Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
Church Cottage, Frittenden, TN17 2DD

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Church Cottage, Frittenden, TN17 2DD

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

County:
Kent
District:
Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:
Frittenden
National Grid Reference:
TQ 81318 40900

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 4 August 2023 to amend the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 8040-8140
14/52

FRITTENDEN
Church Cottage

(Formerly listed as THE STREET (north west side) Ryecot)

GV
II

House. Circa 1846, probably by R C Hussey. Wealden sandstone with Caen stone dressings and plain tiled roof. Irregular T-shaped plan.

Present entry front former left return: two storeyed gabled wing to right with plinth, quoins and kneelered parapet gable with finial. Two light mullioned window on first floor, three light on ground floor. Half-glazed door to left in lean-to outshot. Gabled wing to rear left. Projecting and offset central stack.

Right return, original entrance front: one storey and attic, with gabled half-dormer, mullioned casement and four centred arched doorway with half-glazed door. Rear gabled wing with half-dormer, and four centred moulded doorway with half-glazed door.

Part of the complex designed by Hussey with the rebuilt church c.1846-8. (See B O E Kent I, 290).

Listing NGR: TQ8131840900

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
169402
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Newman, J, The Buildings of England: West Kent and the Weald, (1980), 290

Legal

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

Ordnance survey map of Church Cottage

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