Farm Cottage
FARM COTTAGE, RIDING LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363177
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Farm Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- FARM COTTAGE, RIDING LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363177
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Farm Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- FARM COTTAGE, RIDING LANE
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:
- FARM COTTAGE, RIDING LANE
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 56820 49914
Details
HILDENBOROUGH RIDING LANE (east side) TQ 54 NE 5/203 Farm Cottage - II House, in use as hostel. Circa mid/late C17, altered in the mid C19, when it was divided into 2 cottages, some internal re-planning of the C20 and C20 rear centre wing. Framed construction, underbuilt in brick of various different dates, C19 or early C20 tile-hanging to the first floor with bands of shaped tiles; peg-tile roof; brick stacks.
Plan: West-facing single depth range, 4-rooms wide with a C20 rear wing at right angles forming an overall T plan. The C17 plan is unclear, the existing arrangement, with the right end room heated from an end stack and the first room from the left heated by an axial stack probably dates from the sub- division into cottages, giving each a heated parlour and unheated service room. The axial stack is C17.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front with 2 identical C19 or C20 porches with hipped roofs on brick piers, mid C19 plank and cover strip front doors-, 4 first floor 3-light C19 casements, 2 panes per light; 3 similar ground floor casements, recessed below C19 chamfered stopped lintels. The rear elevation preserves C19 plank doors and casement windows. Roof gabled at ends.
Interior: Plain except for a C17 chamfered stopped longitudinal beam in the first ground floor room from the left. Ceiling beams of large scantling are said to survive elsewhere but have been plastered over.
Roof: Clasped purlin roof of the C17 survives, heavily repaired in the C20.
An attractive, largely C19 exterior with some C17 internal features surviving.
Listing NGR: TQ5682049914
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179636
- 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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