FORSTALL COTTAGE

FORSTALL COTTAGE, LADHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1338767
Date first listed:: 02-Apr-1991
List Entry Name:: FORSTALL COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: FORSTALL COTTAGE, LADHAM ROAD

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Date:: 2002-06-27
Reference:: IOE01/07731/34
Rights:: © Mr Geoffrey Farrow. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1338767
Date first listed:: 02-Apr-1991
List Entry Name:: FORSTALL COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: FORSTALL COTTAGE, LADHAM 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:: FORSTALL COTTAGE, LADHAM ROAD

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 73562 38947

Details

The following Building shall be added:-

GOUDHURST LADHAM ROAD TQ 73 NW FORSTALL COTTAGE 5/481 II

House, Formerly pair of cottages. Probably C16 altered and divided into two cottages subsequently and restored in 1990-1991. Weatherboarded timber frame on stone rubble and brick plinth. Steeply pitched plain tile roof with small gablets at ends of ridge. Brick axial stack behind ridge.

2- bay plan, the right (north) bay 2 storeys, its first floor jettied at the north end, the left (south) bay subdivided (probably later). lobby entrance at centre in front of central axial stack heating the right (north) room. The stack appears to have been inserted later, suggesting the left end was originally open to the roof.

2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window east front. C20 1 and 2 light casements with glazing bars. Central doorway with large C20 weatherboarded porch with hipped roof. Symmetrical 4-window rear (west) elevation with C20 2-light casements on south end. North end has jettied first floor, the jetty beams on curved brackets and with small diamond mullion window on the ground floor.

Interior: Intermediate phase joinery removed and floor beams and joist replaced. Walls have exposed sole and wall-plates, curved tension braces in end walls and wall posts with jowled heads. 2-bay crown post roof with tall square crown posts, 2-way curved bracing and many common rafters intact.

Listing NGR: TQ7395539471

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Legacy System number:: 169835
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.