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Monument details

HER Number:TQ 45 NE 152
Type of record:Listed Building
Name:KENT COTTAGE

Summary

Grade II listed building. Main construction periods 1400 to 1632 17, High Street


Grid Reference:TQ 4720 5514
Map Sheet:TQ45NE
Parish:BRASTED, SEVENOAKS, KENT

Monument Types

  • HOUSE (Medieval to Modern - 1440 AD to 2050 AD)
Protected Status:Listed Building (II) 1085852: KENT COTTAGE AND PREMISES OCCUPIED BY KW BAKER AND PREMISES OCCUPIED BY L MUIR AND PREMISES OCCUPIED BY MARY AND PATRICK ANTIQUES AND PREMISES OCCUPIED BY PJ DONOGHUE

Full description

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The following text is from the original listed building designation:
1. 5280 BRASTED BRASTED High Street (North Side) Premises occupied by Mary and Patrick Antiques. Kent Cottage. Premises occupied by L Muir. Premises occupied by K W Baker. Premises occupied by P J Donoghue. TQ 4755 2/33
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2. These premises form a group with Mills Bakery. Range of timber-framed structures, 3 builds adjoining. Tiled roofs, very high pitched, hipped at right, lower in centre, but sharing a chimney stack; and higher again at left. Probably ranging in date from C15-early C17. 2 storeys, 8 windows in all. Pebble dashed 1st floor, incised rendered ground floor, except for brick left section. This part (K W Baker and P J Donoghue, one window each) has early Cl9 sash windows on lst floor with visible timber framing and cow-dung plaster; old weatherboarding on ground floor. Centre section (L Muir one window, Kent Cottage 2 windows) has Cl9 one-bar casement windows; and doors (4-panel and plain plank) under bracketed hoods. This section partly overlaps on to 3-window right part (Mary and Patrick). This part has C19 one-bar casements on 1st floor, 2 glazed doors and 2 flat shop windows, one with bars, on ground floor.
Premises occupied by Mary and Patrick Antiques, L muir, K W Baker and PJ Donaghue, Kent Cottage and Mills Bakery form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ4720355146 (1)

Description from record TQ 45 NE 33 :
Listed building : no additional information available

Timber framed house with a formerly open 2-bay hall, a lower end and part of the upper end. The lower end may have been jettied. In the 16th century a rear wing, possibly incorporating a kitchen was added. (2)

Historic England archive material: BF040479 17 HIGH STREET, BRASTED 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.


<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.