Listed Building record TQ 54 NE 124 - CARTSHED IMMEDIATELY NORTH EAST OF LITTLE LUCY'S COTTAGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1875 to 1875

Location

Grid reference TQ 5521 4806 (point)
Map sheet TQ54NE
District TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT
Civil Parish HILDENBOROUGH, TONBRIDGE AND MALLING, KENT

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
HILDENBOROUGH LOWER STREET (north side) TQ 54 NE 5/150 Cartshed immediately north - east of Little Lucy's Cottage GV II
Cartshed on the Leigh estate. Dated 1875. Built for Samuel Morley, who owned the estate in the 1870s. Red brick with bullnose brick dressings the gables clad in imitation of timber framing the infill roughcast; peg-tile roof. Vernacular Revival style.
Plan: Rectangular on plan with a 2-bay open fronted cartshed in the centre flanked by store rooms.
Exterior: Single storey. Symmetrical overall with some variations to the openings. The cartshed entrances are divided by an iron column. The framed gables of the store rooms to left and right have timber pendants. The left hand gable has a segmental-arched doorway to the left, a segmental-arched 2- light small-pane casement to the right and 2 low round-headed openings. The right hand gable has a central segmental-arched doorway with a C19 stable door, flanked by 2-light unglazed windows. Datestone of 1875 with the initials SM.
Roof: 1875 tie-beam, king post and strut trusses with diagonal boarding concealing the rafters.
Samuel Morley, Liberal M.P. and hosiery millionaire employed both George Devey and George and Peto on the Leigh estate houses and cottages.
Group value with Little Lucy's Cottage.
Listing NGR: TQ5521248065


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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM