Listed Building record TQ 54 SW 99 - MITRE COTTAGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Possibly a 16th century or later timber framed farmhouse with a jettied first floor. It is of two storeys with a gable-lit attic storey, the tiled roof half hipped. The first floor and the gables are tile hung whilst the ground floor has now been encased with red brick.

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Grid reference TQ 5295 4000 (point)
Map sheet TQ54SW
County KENT
Civil Parish PENSHURST, SEVENOAKS, KENT
District SEVENOAKS, KENT

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5280 PENSHURST FORDCOMBE Fordcombe Road
Mitre Cottage TQ 5240 24/896 29.3.74.
II GV
2. C16 cottage, 2 storeys, 2 windows, irregular. High pitched, tiled roof with symmetrical centre ridge stack. Weatherboarded. Small C19 casements. C19 gabled wood porch to plank door. Small lean-to at right. On left return and behind exposed framing with plaster filling on 1st floor. Some coursed freestone masonry on right return.
Ashurst Cottage and Mitre Cottage form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ5295040007 (1)

Historic England archive material: BF099590 MITRE FARMHOUSE, FORDCOMBE, PENSHURST


<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

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  • <1> Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.

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  • Non-Intrusive Event: Investigation by RCHME/EH Architectural Survey (EKE19937)

Record last edited

Nov 19 2025 7:05PM