Description

TQ 54 SN SPELDHURST LANGTON ROAD, SPELDHURST

3/532 Burnt Cottage

II

House. C17 origins, rebuilt and extended in the circa 1840s. Alterations of
circa 1960 and 1974. Framed construction, the ground floor underbuilt in
brick, the C19 phase brick to the ground floor, the first floor partly tile-
hung and partly timber-framed. Peg-tile roof; stacks with brick shafts.

Plan: The house faces north west with an entrance into the north east end.
The C17 core is a one-room plan fragment of a larger house at the south west
end of the range. This was extended to the north east in the circa 1840s with
a service room added to the rear of the C17 core, this was enlarged in circa
1974.

Exterior: 2 storeys and attic. Deep roof gabletted and half-hipped at north
east end. Asymmetrical 3-window north west front, the C17 core to the right
preserving its original framing on the first floor with 2 diagonal braces. To
the left the C19 phase is tile-hung on the first floor with bands of scalloped
tiles. 3 gables to the front above each window bay: the gables C19, filled
with framing with plain bargeboards and apex finials and pendants. 2- and 3-
light C20 timber casement windows; hipped roof attic dormer to the right. The
left (north east) end has rusticated stone quoins and deep eaves with pierced
cusped bargeboards. Tudor style plank front door to left of centre with
studded coverstrips. The elevation is timber-framed above the first floor
with a 2-tier oriel on a coved base.

Interior: The C17 ground floor room has a chamfered axial beam with canted
step stops and chamfered stopped joists. The first floor beam has been
removed but the rails each end are in the same style. Before the C19 addition
there was a hayloft in the end wall of the C17 house: this is now internal and
blocked by a grille of turned bobbin uprights.

Roof: One-bay of the C17 roof survives with clasped side purlins and queen
struts with straight windbraces.

Listing NGR: TQ5486440412

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26551578

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