White's Cottage and White's Lodge, Wall and Gate Piers Attached
WHITE'S COTTAGE AND WHITE'S LODGE, WALL AND GATE PIERS ATTACHED, BALCOMBES HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320063
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- White's Cottage and White's Lodge, Wall and Gate Piers Attached
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE'S COTTAGE AND WHITE'S LODGE, WALL AND GATE PIERS ATTACHED, BALCOMBES HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1320063
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- White's Cottage and White's Lodge, Wall and Gate Piers Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- WHITE'S COTTAGE AND WHITE'S LODGE, WALL AND GATE PIERS ATTACHED, BALCOMBES HILL
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:
- WHITE'S COTTAGE AND WHITE'S LODGE, WALL AND GATE PIERS ATTACHED, BALCOMBES HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Goudhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 72384 37470
Details
GOUDHURST BALCOMBES HILL TQ 7237-7337 (south east side) 15/69 White's Cottage and White's Lodge, wall and gate piers attached GV II Cottage and walls with gate piers. Circa 1907. Red brick and applied timber frame with plaster infill and weatherboarded with plain tiled roof. The earliest phase probably the walls and gate piers, forming the boundary to White's (item 15/68). Walls about 8 to 10 feet high, stepped down in several stages along road- side, extending some 100 yards in total, with piers with cornice and ball finials at intervals, and especially to gateway to Whites, and flanking the roadside elevation of Whites Cottage, where a round-headed window with louvred shutters pierces the wall, which is raised over it with a shaped gable. White's Cottage: 2 storeys and attic, hipped to right with studs to left and to right, and hipped dormer to right return. Three wooden casements on first floor, 2 on ground floor with half-glazed door to right. Left return wing with garret and double span gabled roof, 2 wooden casements on all 3 floors, mullioned and transomed on ground floor, with central glazed door. The end left block is a later addition.
Listing NGR: TQ7238437470
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169419
- 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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