Springwater Cottage
SPRINGWATER COTTAGE, LEIGH ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363164
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Springwater Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- SPRINGWATER COTTAGE, LEIGH ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363164
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Springwater Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- SPRINGWATER COTTAGE, LEIGH 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:
- SPRINGWATER COTTAGE, LEIGH 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:
- Hildenborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 57123 48246
Details
HILDENBOROUGH LEIGH ROAD TQ 54 NE 5/118 Springwater Cottage - GV II
Small house, originally a pair of cottages. Circa 1700 with 1830s alterations. Flemish bond brick to the ground floor, the first floor tile- hung; peg-tile roof; brick stack.
Plan: Roadside house, facing approximately east. Originally a pair of adjoining 2-cell cottages, each with a principal room to the front heated from end stacks with integral rear outshuts and entrances in the centre facing the stairs.
Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Mansard roof with sprochetted eaves, gabled at ends; projecting end stacks, the left hand stack larger with tile-hung set- offs. Symmetrical 4-window east front with 2 first floor 3-light casements with diamond leaded panes, a pair of similar 2-light ground floor casements in the centre flanked by pairs of 1-light casements to left and right. The left return has a first floor oriel window with iron casements. C20 porch on right return with a hipped roof.
Interior: There have been some alterations to the plan including the removal of the partition between the outshut and principal room at the south end and the removal of the southern staircase. Exposed carpentry, the main beams and south fireplace lintel bead-moulded.
Roof: Clasped purlin roof with considerable repair. An attractive roadside house, group value with Nos 35 and 36 (q.v.).
Listing NGR: TQ5710348209
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179555
- 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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