Bassetts Cottage and Asturias Cottage
ASTURIAS COTTAGE, MILL LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363189
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Bassetts Cottage and Asturias Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- ASTURIAS COTTAGE, MILL LANE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1363189
- Date first listed:
- 19-Feb-1990
- List Entry Name:
- Bassetts Cottage and Asturias Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- ASTURIAS COTTAGE, MILL LANE
- Statutory Address 2:
- BASSETTS COTTAGE, MILL 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:
- ASTURIAS COTTAGE, MILL LANE
- Statutory Address:
- BASSETTS COTTAGE, MILL 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:
- TQ5596649658
Details
TQ 54 NE
5/159
HILDENBOROUGH
MILL LANE (east side)
Bassetts cottage and Asturias Cottage
GV
II
Pair of small houses. Possibly C17 or earlier in origin, judging from some of
the brickwork, but extensively re-modelled, probably in the C19, re-using C16
and C17 timbers. Flemish bond brick with blue headers to the ground floor,
some of the brick on the end walls handmade; first floor tile-hung; peg-tile
roof; brick stack. 1980s rear additions weatherboarded with old peg-tile
roofs.
Plan and Development: A pair of mirror plan roadside houses, facing west.
Each house has a principal room to the front, heated from back-to-back
fireplaces in the axial stack, with a straight stair rising inside the room
against the rear wall. Front doors in the north and south ends. Short rear
wings at right angles appear to be secondary, providing unheated service
rooms. These have been extended in the 1980s by single-storey rear additions
which match one another. Most of the internal carpentry is C16 or C17 but the
details suggest that almost all of it is re-used.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Roof half-hipped at ends. Symmetrical 4-window front
with a set of matching C19 2-light first floor timber casements, 2-panes per
light. 2 similar 3-light ground floor casements, these are slightly recessed
with chamfered lintels. Asturias Cottage, to the right (south) has a shallow
C20 timber bow window with small panes on the right (south return).
Interior: The principal room of each house has a chamfered stopped crossbeam
and joists. Bassetts Cottage has joists with step nick stops. Asturias
Cottage has joists with step stops on one side and runout stops on the other,
both sets of joists may be re-used. The exposed rails on the rear wall
framing of both houses are re-used. Asturias Cottage preserves C19
matchboarding to the stair, and both houses have probably C18 ledged plank
stair doors with strap hinges.
Roof: Asturias Cottage only inspected. This has a queen post roof, with
almost every timber re-used with redundant mortises, the existing fixings are
long projecting pegs. Some of the rafters have a soot crust and may have
originated from an open hall house.
An attractive pair of small traditional houses. Group value with Limes
Farmhouse opposite and to the south.
Listing NGR: TQ5596649658
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 179592
- 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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