Listed Building record TQ 53 NW 64 - PENN COTTAGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1833 to 1866

Location

Grid reference TQ 5436 3930 (point)
Map sheet TQ53NW
District TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT
Civil Parish SPELDHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT

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Full Description

The following text is from the original listed building designation:
TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST THE GREEN (east side), LANGTON GREEN 7/486 Penn Cottage
GV II
Small house. Probably mid C19 with some C20 modernisation. Ground floor level is Flemish bond red brick patched with stretcher bond red brick at the south end. Timber-framed above and hung with peg-tile. Brick stack and chimneyshaft with chimneypots. Peg-tile roof.
Plan: 2-room plan cottage facing west toward The Green. Axial stacks between the rooms serves back-to-back fireplaces. Entrance porch on right (south) end recessed from front and rising to small parallel rear service block that end.
2 storeys.
Exterior: House has regular 2-window front of C20 casements with glazing bars. Roof is gable-ended. Doorway recessed facing forward on right end; it contains C20 panelled door. Roof rises to 2 storeys and is gable-ended.
Interior: Was not available for inspection at the time of this survey.
Penn Cottage forms part of an attractive and varied group of buildings along the east side of The Green.
Listing NGR: TQ5436239307


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