Listed Building: KENT COTTAGE (1085977)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 661, 3, 201
Date assigned 27 March 1991
Date last amended

Description

The following building shall be added to the list; SEVENOAKS WILDERNESSE MOUNT TQ 55 NW 3/201 Sent Cottage II House. Circa 1930 by M.C. Baillie Scott. Stretcher bond brick, tile hanging and timber framing. Plain tile roof with half-hipped ends. Brick axial stacks. Plan comprises full depth drawing room on left, and on right the dining room with kitche in front. The entrance hall and stairs are in an outshut at the centre of the front which extends to the right where it contains services and an outhouse. English Domestic Revival style. 2 storeys and attic. Asymmetrical north west front. Timber framing on left with tile hanging above. Main roof carried down as catslide over entrance at centre with panelled door and over outshut on right which extends into an outhouse on the right hand corner. Flat roof dormer at centre and tall stack to right rising from roof. The south east garden front is tile hung on first floor, jettied out over timber frame ground floor recess on right with canted bay window and integral wooden bench; brick on left with French casement. Half-hipped north east and south west gable ends are tile-hung, the north east with timber framed ground floor, the south west brick. All metal-frame casements with leaded panes of 1, 2, 3 and 4 lights. Interior: Largely unaltered and complete with much of the original oak joinery intact, including staircase, plank doors with wrought iron hinges and panelling etc. The drawing and dining rooms have original brick fireplaces, the former with Tudor arch, the latter, smaller, has raised hearth and elliptical arch. Listing NGR: TQ5395956351

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Sources (1)

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 5395 5635 (point)
Map sheet TQ55NW
Civil Parish SEVENOAKS, SEVENOAKS, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 10:25AM