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Latitude: 51.1316 / 51°7'53"N
Longitude: 0.2025 / 0°12'8"E
OS Eastings: 554202
OS Northings: 139228
OS Grid: TQ542392
Mapcode National: GBR MPP.XPV
Mapcode Global: VHHQC.GTDD
Plus Code: 9F3246J2+JX
Entry Name: Firtree Cottage
Listing Date: 24 August 1990
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1240547
English Heritage Legacy ID: 439021
ID on this website: 101240547
Location: Langton Green, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN3
County: Kent
District: Tunbridge Wells
Civil Parish: Speldhurst
Built-Up Area: Royal Tunbridge Wells
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: Langton Green All Saints
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
Tagged with: Cottage
TQ 53 NW
7/495
SPELDHURST
THE GREEN (west side), LANGTON GREEN
Firtree Cottage
GV
II
Former cottage, now office of the Institute of Cultural Affairs. Early/mid
C19. Ground floor level is red-brown coloured Flemish bond brick with dentil
cornice, timber-framed above and hung with peg-tile. Brick stack and
chimneyshaft with divided flues. Peg-tile roof.
Plan: L-plan house facing east south east, say east, onto The Green. 2-room
plan front block, the left (south) room being the front room of a crosswing
projecting one-room to rear. Axial stack serving back-to-back fireplaces
between the 2 blocks. Main entrance in rear angle of the 2 wings and a
secondary one on the south side towards the rear end.
2 storeys.
Exterior: Irregular 2-window front. Right windows are C20 casements with
glazing bars, lower one under low brick segmental arch. Left windows are C19
20-pane sashes, lower one broken forward in a shallow brick bay. Roof is
gable-ended to right and gable-ended crossroof to left. Left end also has C20
casements with glazing bars. Single first floor window towards rear with
small gable over and below it a gabled porch containing C20 part-glazed door
(similar door to rear).
Interior: No exposed carpentry. Roof not inspected.
Firtree Cottage was probably the lodge belonging to nearby Langton House
(q.v.). It is one of an attractive and varied group of listed buildings
fronting onto The Green.
Listing NGR: TQ5420239228
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