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Monument details

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1500 to 1899

Summary from record TQ 54 SW 90:

A mixture of M19C and C16 cottages all three are listed.

Monument Types

• HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1500 AD to 2050 AD)
• SITE (Medieval to Post Medieval - 1500 AD to 1899 AD)
• HOUSE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1850 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5280 PENSHURST PENSHURST Leicester Square
Nos 1 to 3 (consec) (Formerly listed as Cottages forming north east corner of The Square) TQ 5243 23/819 10.9.54.
II GV
2. No 1 is a mid-C19 link between Wall Cottage and Nos 2 and 3, probably by George Devey. 2 storeys, 2 windows under gable. Brick and tile-hung front. Nos 2 and 3 are C16 restored, with plaster-filled vertical timbering. High pitched tiled roofs. No 3 has old chimney stack, projecting at West end. No 2 has red brick ground floor. Both have oversailing 1st floor behind. No 2 has restored door under bracketed hood and the framing above is a C19 restoration.
Wall Cottage, Nos 1 to 3 (consec), the Archway, the Old Guildhouse and the Post Office and Retaining Wall form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ5276543831

Description from record TQ 54 SW 90:
No1 is a mid 19C link between wall cottage

English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<1> Nicola Bannister, Historic landscape survey of Penshurst Estate, Tonbridge (Unpublished document). SKE6946.

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