Listed Building record TQ 64 SE 171 - HOMEBUSH COTTAGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1667 to 1979

Location

Grid reference TQ 6640 4197 (point)
Map sheet TQ64SE
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish BRENCHLEY, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 64 SE BRENCHLEY BRENCHLEY ROAD, HOMEBUSH
6/43 Homebush Cottage
II
House, formerly 2 cottages. Probably late C17, built in 2 phases, thoroughly renovated in the 1970s. Framed construction, the ground floor weatherboarded, the first floor tile-hung; peg-tile roof, gabled at ends; brick stacks.
Plan: The house faces approximately north and fronts the road. Modernised internally with partitions altered. It is a 2 phase house, the right (west) end probably the earlier, has been raised.
Exterior: 2 storeys. Asymmetrical 4-window front; roof gabled at ends; projecting end stacks with tile-hung set-offs. Half-glazed C20 front door to left of centre flanked by small-pane windows. 4 ground and 4 first floor small-pane top-hung C20 casements. 4 similar first floor windows. One attic dormer with a hipped roof and small pane casement.
Interior: Exposed carpentry of a plain character. The wall framing is of slender scantling with formed jowls to the wall posts.
Roof: C20 replacement.
On a prominent roadside site.
Listing NGR: TQ6640541975


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

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

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Record last edited

Feb 19 2008 12:26PM