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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 84 SE 117
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:BIDDENDEN GREEN COTTAGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1540


Grid Reference:TQ 8888 4281
Map Sheet:TQ84SE
Parish:SMARDEN, ASHFORD, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1480 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1325168: BIDDENDEN GREEN COTTAGE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5272 SMARDEN PLUCKLEY ROAD Biddenden Green Cottage (formerly listed as Brosser Farmhouse and Biddenden Green Cottage) TQ 8842 29/34 14.2.67. II 2. Probably a late mediaeval hall-house refaced with weatherboarding. Steeply-pitched hipped tiled roof with smoke louvres and massive C17 brick chimney stack. Four casement windows. Doorcases with flat hoods over.
Listing NGR: TQ8888242816
Formerly TQ 84 SE 26 (1)

End jetty house with a formerly open 2-bay hall with only the lower end jettied. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040465 BIDDENDEN GREEN COTTAGE, SMARDEN File of material relating to a site or building. This material has not yet been fully catalogued. Copyright, date, and quantity information for this record may be incomplete or inaccurate. RCH01/048/01/611 Labelled sheet of drawings of Biddenden Green Cottage, Smarden, with a sketch plan of the ground-floor, and a dais beam profile


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

<2> Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T., 1994, A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent (Monograph). SKE8010.

Sources and further reading

Cross-ref. Source description
<1>Map: English Heritage. List of Buildings of Special Architectural or Historic Interest.
<2>Monograph: Pearson, S., Barnwell, P. S. & Adams, A. T.. 1994. A Gazetteer of Medieval Houses in Kent.