58, High Street
58, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031800
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 58, High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 58, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031800
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1951
- List Entry Name:
- 58, High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 58, HIGH STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 58, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Swale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 90717 63656
Details
TQ 9063
NE 2/6
SITTINGBOURNE
HIGH STREET (North Side)
No 58
10.9.51
GV
II
This building, with Nos 60 and 62 adjoining, formed the front of the Red Lion Inn
which was originally the principal hotel of Sittingbourne until it was superseded
by the Rose Inn. The front dates from the Cl8. 2 storeys and attics red brick.
Tiled roof and 1 C19 gabled dormer. Cornice and panelled parapet on which there
is a plaster figure of a couchant lion. 4 sashes with glazing bars missing. Modern
public house front on the ground floor and carriage arch through the building to
the west of it. Behind the street front and at right angles to it is a long low
timber-framed building. The ground floor has been rebuilt in painted brick. The
lst floor is plastered and overhangs on a bressumer. Tiled roof. Sash windows,
some with glazing bars intact, including a curved bay of 3 round-headed windows
at the south end of the ground floor with cornice over. 2 storeys, 6 windows
facing west. There has been an inn on this site for 500 years. In 1415, Henry
V was entertained here on his return from Agincourt. Other famous customers include
Cardinal Wolsey and Henry V.
Nos 30 to 62 (even) form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ9071763656
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175793
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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