Cartshed Immediately North East of Little Lucy's Cottage is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. Cartshed.
Cartshed Immediately North East of Little Lucy's Cottage
- WRENN ID
- noble-hinge-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- Cartshed
- Address
- Cartshed Immediately North East of Little Lucy's Cottage, Lower Street, Hildenborough
- OS grid reference
- TQ 554 482
- Coordinates
- 51.21189, 0.2241
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The cartshed located immediately northeast of Little Lucy's Cottage is a Grade II listed structure built in 1875 on the Leigh estate for Samuel Morley, who owned the estate during that time. It is constructed of red brick with bullnose brick dressings, and the gables are designed to imitate timber framing with roughcast infill. The roof is covered with peg tiles and reflects a Vernacular Revival style.
The building has a rectangular plan and is single storey. It features a symmetrical design with some variations in the openings. The central area contains a 2-bay open fronted cartshed, flanked by store rooms. The entrances to the cartshed are separated by an iron column. The store rooms on either side have framed gables with timber pendants. The left gable includes a segmental-arched doorway on the left, a segmental-arched 2-light small-pane casement on the right, and two low round-headed openings. The right gable features a central segmental-arched doorway with a 19th-century stable door, flanked by two unglazed 2-light windows. A datestone from 1875 displays the initials SM.
The roof structure consists of tie-beam, king post, and strut trusses from 1875, with diagonal boarding that conceals the rafters.
Samuel Morley, a Liberal Member of Parliament and a successful hosiery manufacturer, employed both George Devey and George and Peto for the construction of houses and cottages on the Leigh estate. The cartshed has group value with Little Lucy's Cottage.
Local climate
Cartshed Immediately North East of Little Lucy's Cottage receives an average of 760 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 68% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 57% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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