Listed Building: MONK'S COTTAGE (1070513)

Grade II
Authority
Volume/Map/Item 1347, 7, 199
Date assigned 25 February 1987
Date last amended

Description

In the entry for ; LEYBOURNE LONDON ROAD TQ 65 NE (south side) 7/199 No 99 II The entry shall be amended to read ; TQ 65 NE LEYBOURNE LONDON ROAD No 99 (Monk's Cottage) 7/199 II Cottage. C18; refronted in C19 and extended in C20. Roughcast brick ground floor, tile hung timber frame above, front rendered. Plain tile roof with gabled and half hipped ends and gabled front. Brick gable end and rear lateral stacks. 2-room plan, the larger left hand room heated from gabled end stack and with direct entry from central doorway; smaller unheated right hand room has later rear lateral fireplace. Stairs in central rear stair turret rise from left hand room. C20 outshut rear left and flat room single storey extension on left end. 2 storeys and attic. Symmetrical north east front, the centre built forward in C19 and gabled; C19 8-pane sashes and central stack to left and outshut to right and casement windows with glazing bars. C20 small single storey flat roof extension on left (south east) end. Interior: Larger left hand room has slightly chamfered cross-beam with runt-out stops, exposed joists and large brick fireplace with cambered brick arch. C18 2-panel door to cupboard at rear under stairs. Small right hand room has exposed joists and small C19 lateral fireplace with cambered brick arch. Winder stairs in rear turret. Left hand chamber has simple C18 stone chimneypiece with bead moulding and cast-iron grate. Right hand chamber has small Victorian Chimneypiece and grate and exposed wall plate. Attic ceiled but clasped purlins and collars exposed. LEYBOURNE CP LONDON ROAD TQ 65 NE (south side) 7/199 - No 99 - II Cottage. Mid Cl7 with C19 front gable. Plastered to north-east; other ele- vations, red brick ground floor, tile-hung 1st floor. Plain tiled roofs with taller central return gable to north-east, half-hipped roof behind with 1 1/2- storey wing to rear and tall brick stack off-ridge to rear at right. 2 storeys and attics; 2 window front with blocked window in gable. Glazing bar sashes to front, casements to sides and rear. CentraI half-glazed door with C20 glazed weather patch. 1-storey lean-to extensions to north-west and south-east. Listing NGR: TQ6856758239

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

Map

Location

Grid reference TQ 6856 5823 (point)
Map sheet TQ65NE
Civil Parish LEYBOURNE, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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Record last edited

Nov 16 2006 11:31AM