Listed Building record TQ 64 SE 171 - HOMEBUSH COTTAGE
Summary
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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- --- SKE16160 Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
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Record last edited
Feb 19 2008 12:26PM