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The Cottage

A Grade II Listed Building in Elham, Kent

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Coordinates

Latitude: 51.1533 / 51°9'12"N

Longitude: 1.1124 / 1°6'44"E

OS Eastings: 617756

OS Northings: 143948

OS Grid: TR177439

Mapcode National: GBR TZP.L2F

Mapcode Global: VHLH7.78GP

Plus Code: 9F335436+8X

Entry Name: The Cottage

Listing Date: 17 October 1988

Grade: II

Source: Historic England

Source ID: 1262356

English Heritage Legacy ID: 435256

ID on this website: 101262356

Location: Elham, Folkestone and Hythe, Kent, CT4

County: Kent

District: Folkestone and Hythe

Civil Parish: Elham

Built-Up Area: Elham

Traditional County: Kent

Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent

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Description



TR 1673-1743 ELHAM COCK LANE
(North Side)

9/23 The Cottage

GV II

House. Early C17. Timber framed with plaster infilling. Plain tile
roof. Lobby-entry plan of 3 or 5 timber-framed bays including central
stack bay. 2 storeys and cellar. Rendered plinth. Continuous jetty,
returning to left and right. Left gable-end jetty underbuilt. Right
end has grotesque of woman riding winged devil under dragon beam.
Scrolled bracket with strapwork towards rear of right gable end. Broadly-
spaced studding, with painted brick infilling to ground floor and rendered
panels to first floor. Hipped roof. Central brick ridge stack.
Irregular fenestration of 3 leaded casements; two three-light and
central single-light. Evidence for oriel or bay window with frieze
lights, to right and left on ground floor. Panelled door in central
painted brick porch with moulded wooden cornice, flat roof, and Gothick
side lights. Rear lean-to, central section built up to two storeys
in red and grey brick with half-hipped plain tile roof. Interior: only
partly inspected. Exposed framing to ground floor. Ovolo-moulded
axial and tenoned cross beam to each of two ground-floor rooms. Brick
fireplace with chamfered jambs and bressumer and angled back to each
room. Left ground-floor room panelled with reeded frieze and with
enriched C17 wooden overmantel.


Listing NGR: TR1775743950

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