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Monument details

Summary

Grade II* listed building. A surviving portion of a 16th century courtyard house.

Monument Types

• SITE (Post Medieval to Modern - 1570 AD to 2050 AD)

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
CRANBROOK BIDDENDEN ROAD
TQ 83 NW (NORTH SIDE) Sissinghurst
4/29 The South Cottage
20.6.67
GV II*
Small fragment of the main block of the c1570 house, now cottage. Circa 1570, much restored, altered and extended. C1930-40 red, with some blue brick. Plain tiled roof, hipped to right with projecting breast and very tall stack, and partly hipped to left with very large framed half-hip over. Tall stack to rear. Two storeys; 2-window front, slightly irregular with large wooden diamond lattice casements in segment-headed surrounds. The lintel of a transom and mullion window with drip-mould area remains on the west face and on the first floor of the east front survives a blocked doorway with possible blocked doorway below, that above with surround moulded on the inside. Two storey brick and tile-hung extension of c1930-40 to north.
Listing NGR: TQ7976537584
(1)

In 2010 Archaeology South-East carried out a survey of the building. South Cottage is the south-eastern corner of the courtyard house built in c. AD 1570 and largely demolished in the late 18th century. It was extended in 1932. (2)

<1> English Heritage, List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest (Map). SKE16160.

<2> Archaeology South-East, 2011, Sissinghurst Castle, Sissinghurst, Cranbrook, Kent: Conservation Management Plan volume 3 (Unpublished document). SKE25133.

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