Listed Building record TQ 66 NE 136 - OWLETTS' COTTAGE

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 66 NE COBHAM THE STREET 5/32 (north side)
Owletts' Cottage
II
Dated 1805 on stone central panel. Red brick, tiled hpped roof. Eaves cornice. Original casement windows with arched heads and fanlights on ground floor. Built for the Edmeads family whose initials are on the stone date panel.
Listing NGR: TQ6668668620

1805, brick cottage with symmetrical front elevation, rubbed flat arches and fanlights over windows to front. Rear and sides simpler and not symmetrical. Free standing former privy to rear. Large gardens front and rear.

No. 3 built by Henry Edmeades, owner of Owletts during late 18th and early 19th century. No. 3 a fine example of early 19th-century estate building with fine detailing, worthy of inclusion on statutory list. Others are simpler and less remarkable architecturally though important for Baker connection.

Plans are relatively small with single principal rooms front and rear smaller associated stairs and service rooms. Large gardens to rear for nos 1-2 and to front and rear for 3-5. All closely associated with grade II* listed Owletts House, which sits at centre of group. Further association through Herbert Baker with Tudor Yeoman's House in nearby Sole Street [1].

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<1> CgMs, 2010, Historic Building Assessment and Statement of Significance of 1-5 Owletts Cottages, Kent. (Unpublished document). SKE58358.