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Mill Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Bidborough, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.1684 / 51°10'6"N

Longitude: 0.2322 / 0°13'55"E

OS Eastings: 556155

OS Northings: 143382

OS Grid: TQ561433

Mapcode National: GBR MPB.RHX

Mapcode Global: VHHQ5.ZW3Q

Plus Code: 9F32569J+8V

Entry Name: Mill Cottage

Listing Date: 24 August 1990

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1248951

English Heritage Legacy ID: 430781

ID on this website: 101248951

Location: Bidborough, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN3

County: Kent

District: Tunbridge Wells

Civil Parish: Bidborough

Built-Up Area: Southborough

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

Church of England Parish: St Peter with Christ Church and St Matthew Southborough and St Lawrence Bidborough

Church of England Diocese: Rochester

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Description


TQ 56 43 BIDBOROUGH PENSHURST ROAD (south side)

11/21 Mill Cottage

GV II

Small house. Probably C18 origins with later C18 or C19 rear addition.
Ground floor painted brick, first floor tile-hung; peg-tile roof; brick
stacks.

Plan: North-facing with 2 principal rooms at the front heated from end stacks
and a later rear outshut with a gabled rear stair projection in the centre.
The original arrangement may have been a 2 cell building with a
parlour/kitchen at the right end, heated from a large projecting right end
stack, and an unheated room at the left - the left end stack is probably a C20
addition. A straight joint indicates that the rear outshut is a later
addition.

Exterior: 2 storeys. Symmetrical 3-bay front with a gabled roof and a C20
flat-roofed central porch and C20 timber casement windows. The rear elevation
has a catslide roof over the outshut and a tile-hung gabled stair projection
rising out of the outshut. One small rear window to the outshut, 2 small
attic dormers to the rear of the ridge.

Interior: Exposed carpentry in the right hand room, there may be other
features of interest.

An attractive small vernacular house.

Group value with Four Winds Windmill (q.v.).


Listing NGR: TQ5615543382

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