Mount Edgcumbe Cottage

MOUNT EDGCUMBE COTTAGE, THE COMMON

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Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1338816
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1966
Statutory Address:
MOUNT EDGCUMBE COTTAGE, THE COMMON
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed building
List Entry Number:
1338816
Date first listed:
24-Nov-1966
Statutory Address 1:
MOUNT EDGCUMBE COTTAGE, THE COMMON

Location

Statutory Address:
MOUNT EDGCUMBE COTTAGE, THE COMMON

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

County:
Kent
District:
Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 57928 39280

Details

THE COMMON 1. 1746 Mount Edgcumbe Cottage TQ 5739 SE 4/67 24.11.66. II GV 2. An early Cl9 house of which the north-east front is Gothicised. This is in 2 parts. The north end of the front has 2 storeys and 1 window. It is fronted with painted wood grooved in imitation of masonry and has a crow-stepped gable flanked by wooden pinnacles, also square-headed casement windows containing pointed panes and with dripstones over. The east end of the front has only 1 storey but 3 windows. It has a stuccoed front with castellated parapet and ordinary sash windows, but with dripstones over them. The south-west front is not Gothicized, except that it has one French window containing pointed heads to the top panes. This front is L-shaped and the north-west bay is splayed and projecting. Mount Edgcumbe, Mount Edgcumbe Cottage and Ephraim Lodge form a group. form a +roun -

Listing NGR: TQ5792039278

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