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Rose Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Pembury, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.1472 / 51°8'50"N

Longitude: 0.329 / 0°19'44"E

OS Eastings: 562997

OS Northings: 141242

OS Grid: TQ629412

Mapcode National: GBR NR6.001

Mapcode Global: VHHQF.NF8C

Plus Code: 9F3248WH+VH

Entry Name: Rose Cottage

Listing Date: 24 August 1990

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1254393

English Heritage Legacy ID: 437889

ID on this website: 101254393

Location: Henwood Green, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN2

County: Kent

District: Tunbridge Wells

Civil Parish: Pembury

Built-Up Area: Pembury

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

Church of England Parish: Pembury St Peter

Church of England Diocese: Rochester

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Description


TQ 64 SW PEMBURY HENWOOD GREEN ROAD

5/371 No 130, Rose Cottage

GV II

Small house. Circa 1700, roof replaced after a fire in the mid C19, minor C20
modernisation. Weatherboarded timber frame; brick stack and chimneyshaft;
slate roof.

Plan: 2-room plan cottage facing west. Unheated service room at the left
(north end) still serves as a pantry but front section now divided off as an
entrance lobby. Larger right room, the former living room/kitchen has a right
end stack. Kitchen now in probably secondary outshot to rear.

2 storeys with attics in the roofspace and lean-to outshot across the back.
Exterior: 3 ground floor windows and 2 first floor windows, all C20 casements
without glazing bars. Centre ground floor window is probably blocking the
original front doorway. Present doorway in left end containing C20 plank
door. Roof is gable-ended and the left gable includes a C19 fixed pane window
containing tiny rectangular panes.

Interior: Has plain carpentry detail. Main ground floor room has a roughly
chamfered axial beam and similar axial beam full length of first floor.
Ground floor has large brick fireplace with plain oak lintel and first floor
fireplace is blocked. Roof replaced in C19 with evidence that the cause was a
fire.


Listing NGR: TQ6299741242

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