Listed Building record TQ 73 SW 39 - TOWER COTTAGE
Summary
Location
Grid reference | TQ 7167 3468 (point) |
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Map sheet | TQ73SW |
District | TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
Civil Parish | GOUDHURST, TUNBRIDGE WELLS, KENT |
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Full Description
The following text is from the original listed building designation:
GOUDHURST BEDGEBURY CROSS TQ 73 SW (west side)
9/78 Tower Cottage GV II Estate cottage. Circa 1850. Red brick and sandstone with slated roof. L-shaped with tower on outside of return angle. One storey and attic on plinth with stone quoins to roof with kneelered parapet gables and projecting and offset stack to right with octagonal moulded paired flues. Two moulded gabled half dormers and unappropriate central flush skylight. Two 2-light mullioned stone windows with label hoods and central glazed door in kneelered gabled porch with four centred arched surround and labelled hood. Recessed at right a 2-storey tower, offset on ground floor, with pyramidal roof and narrow lancet-like lights. Rear wing with moulded door and window surrounds with Nos 2 and 3 on the opposite side of the Cross, the best of the group of estate cottages here built for the Bedgebury Estate. The architect may have been Alexander Roos (c.1840) or R C Carpenter (c.1854), both of whom worked on Bedgebury Park at those dates.
Listing NGR: TQ7167434686
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