Listed Building: WRANGLING COTTAGE (1263698)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1356, 6, 80
Date assigned 24 August 1990
Date last amended

Description

TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY FURNACE LANE 6/80 Wrangling Cottage II Small house. Circa 1700 with circa mid C20 additions. Framed construction, clad in weatherboarding; peg-tile roofs; brick stack. Plan: North facing. 2 bays. The main block is 2-cell with a large heated room to the east and an unheated service end containing the stair and now divided axially into 2 rooms. Entrance on the front into the unheated end. An outshut has been added at the east end, probably in the C18. C20 addition, triangular on plan, adjoins the front left (north east) corner, C20 porch addition. Exterior: 2 storeys. Roof gabled at left end, half-hipped at right end; massive left end stack with a tall shaft and corbelled brick cornice. Asymmetrical 2-window front with probably C19 2-light casements with glazing bars. C20 porch with a lean-to roof. The rear elevation preserves one ground and one first floor 3-light C18 mullioned window with sunk bead mouldings to the mullions and hand-made window furniture. Interior: The heated room has a crossbeam with runout stops, exposed joists and a fireplace lintel with scroll stops. The fireplace has a keeping place and evidence of a former bread oven. The wall framing is largely intact, the wallposts with formed jowls. Roof: Clasped purlin construction, augmented with a king post and strut arrangement on the first floor axial ceiling beam over the heated room. The roof timbers include some re-used sooted rafters. The collar over the unheated end is steeply-cambered. Listing NGR: TQ6963041746

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Sources (1)

  • Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 6963 4174 (point)
Map sheet TQ64SE
Civil Parish BRENCHLEY, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 5:21PM