Description

TQ 53 NW SPELDHURST GROOMBRIDGE HILL (west side),
OLD GROOMBRIDGE
7/520 Blue Cottage

GV II

House, formerly 2 cottages. C17 or early C18 origins, refurbished in late
C19, modernised circa 1980. Weatherboarded timber-framing on red brick
footings. Brick stack and chimneyshaft. Peg-tile roof.

Plan: House built as a pair of cottages alongside the road and facing south.
Whole house has a 3-room plan with lean-to outshots each end. Right end room
has end stack. This is the only surviving stack. Formerly a one-room plan
cottage right and 2-room cottage to left. Partition between centre and right
rooms has now been removed. Present layout is that of the C20 modernisation
of a pair of late C19 cottages. The roof structure suggests C17 or early C18
origins but the layout of that building is not known.

2 storeys with lean-to outshots each end.

Exterior: Symmetrical 3-window front of C20 casements with diamond leaded
effect. First floor windows are flat-roofed half dormers. 2 front doorways
contain late C19 plank doors with coverstrips. Continuous timber hood on
shaped brackets over ground floor windows and doors. Similar doors under
gables each end into the outshots. Main roof is gable-ended.

Interior: Has plain carpentry detail. On the first floor the tie beams of
the trusses are exposed. Mortises in them suggest a higher first floor level
formerly. 3-bay roof of extensively mended tie-beam trusses with clasped side
purlins and queen struts.

Blue Cottage, very attractive in its own right, forms part of a group with
other listed buildings on Groombridge Hill.

Listing NGR: TQ5337038016

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26533622

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Recommended Books

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  Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  London 4: North: North v. 4 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  London 3: North West: North West v. 3 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990: Updated version
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  Historic Environment Law: Planning, Listed Buildings, Monuments, Conservation Areas and Objects, Supplement 2014