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Latitude: 51.1186 / 51°7'7"N
Longitude: 0.184 / 0°11'2"E
OS Eastings: 552950
OS Northings: 137751
OS Grid: TQ529377
Mapcode National: GBR MPV.Z6L
Mapcode Global: VHHQK.44MS
Plus Code: 9F32459M+FH
Entry Name: 11 Bird-In-Hand Street
Listing Date: 20 October 1954
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1261076
English Heritage Legacy ID: 438599
ID on this website: 101261076
Location: Groombridge, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, TN3
County: Kent
District: Tunbridge Wells
Civil Parish: Speldhurst
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Church of England Parish: Speldhurst St Mary the Virgin
Church of England Diocese: Rochester
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TQ 53 37
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SPELDHURST
OLD GROOMBRIDGE
BIRD-IN-HAND STREET
No 11
20.10.54
GV
II*
Cottage. Probably late C17/early C18, minor C19 and C20 modernisations. Tall plinth of coursed sandstone. Rest is timber-framed; the ground floor level is weatherboarded and hung with peg-tile above. Brick stack, probably with stone base, and brick chimneyshaft. Peg-tile roof.
Plan: two-room plan cottage facing north east. The larger right (north west) room has a projecting gable-end stack with a smaller former service room to left.
two storeys with attics in the roofspace and a cellar under the left end. Various C19 and C20 single storey extensions, one on right end and others to rear.
Exterior: Regular but not symmetrical three-window front of C19 and C20 casements containing diamond panes of leaded glass (some of the frames may be earlier). Front doorway right of centre up a flight of seven stone steps. It contains a plain plank door. Tall stone plinth contains a boarded hatch to the cellar towards the left end. Roof is gable-ended.
Interior: Is mostly the result of superficial C19 and C20 modernisations. The fireplace is blocked and most of the carpentry is hidden behind plaster. The main ground floor has a chamfered axial beam. Roof structure in the attic is boxed in.
No 11 is an attractive and unspoilt cottage in its own right but also is one of a superlative group of similar buildings associated with Groombridge Place (q.v.) which make up Old Groombridge village.
Listing NGR: TQ5295237749
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