Listed Building record TQ 53 NW 53 - STONE COTTAGES

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1840 to 1849

Location

Grid reference TQ 5368 3835 (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 GROOMBRIDGE HILL (east side) OLD GROOMBRIDGE 7/514 Stone Cottages GV II
Row of 5 cottages, originally 6. Probably 1840s. Chisel-dressed local sandstone ashlar brought to course except the attic storey, which is Flemish bond brick; slate roof; stacks with brick shafts.
Plan: West facing range, originally symmetrical, each cottage one-room wide and 2-rooms deep with back-to-back fireplaces in 3 axial stacks. Doorways to Nos 1 and 6 at the extreme left and right, the other doors were paired, to left and right of centre. Nos 2 and 3 have been converted to one cottage, blocking the door to the original No 2.
Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Gable-ended roof. Originally symmetrical 6- window front with a stone platband at first floor level and a brick platband at attic floor level. Chimney shafts with corbelled brick cornices; ground and first floor openings with stone ashlar voussoirs. Recessed plank front doors; 2-light timber casement windows to the ground floor; similar glazing to the small first floor windows, which are arranged in pairs. The gabled attic dormers are slate-hung on the returns with deep eaves with pierced curly bargeboards and are glazed with C19 small-pane timber casements. C20 single- storey lean-to porch addition on the right (south) return.
Interior: Not inspected.
Group value with other listed buildings on Groombridge Hill.
Listing NGR: TQ5368138353


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