Mote Farm Cottages Old Laundry Cottage
MOTE FARM COTTAGES, 1-4, MOTE ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1362411
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Mote Farm Cottages Old Laundry Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MOTE FARM COTTAGES, 1-4, MOTE ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1362411
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Mote Farm Cottages Old Laundry Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MOTE FARM COTTAGES, 1-4, MOTE ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- OLD LAUNDRY COTTAGE, MOTE ROAD
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:
- MOTE FARM COTTAGES, 1-4, MOTE ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- OLD LAUNDRY COTTAGE, MOTE ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Ightham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 58387 53459
Details
TQ 55 SE IGHTHAM MOTE ROAD 3/8 (east side)
1.8.52 Nos 1 to 4 (consec) Mote Farm Cottages and Old Laundry. Cottage GV II*
Cottage Row. C16 with later C19 fronts to right. L-shaped. Nos 1 and 2, (to left). Underbuilt in red and blue brick on ground floor, close-studded timber-framing on first floor with plaster infill. Plain tiled roof with gabled semi-dormer to left, 2 gabled dormers in centre and jettied gable. Second storey of central tower to right. Two front off-ridge stacks at left and centre. Two-storey and attic; irregular fenestration, 2 casements on first floor, 3 on ground floor. Boarded door at extreme left, glazed doors off-centre to left and at extreme right. Tall door under central tower with small door on second floor. Nos 3 and 4 (to right). Red and blue brick chequer below, fish-scale and plain tile-hanging above. Plain tiled roof with central shallow tile-hung return gable and 2 heavily moulded ridge stacks. Two storeys; irregular 4 window front, casements. Boarded doors with overlights, at extreme left and off-centre to right. Old Laundry Cottage. Return wing to rear of No 4 red brick ground floor. Fish-scale and plain tile-hanging above. Plain tiled roof of 2 pitches, that to right slightly higher, matching slight projection of wall over face below. One bay of close-studded timber-framing with plaster infill to right. Left-hand between gable with moulded bargeboards. Central chimney-breast, projecting, with stack. Ridge stack off-centre to right. Two storeys; irregular 2 window front, casements. Left-hand entrance with half-glazed door. Rear of whole range timber-framed with plaster infilling, the wing to the left being Old Laundry Cottage. Gabled 3-storey centre with small cupola over, almost on axis,with Ightham. Mote west t front. This whole range may once have privided Ightham Mote with an outer court.
Listing NGR: TQ5839053444
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 357262
- 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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