42, 44 AND 44A, HIGH STREET
42, 44 AND 44A, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031821
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 42, 44 AND 44A, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 42, 44 AND 44A, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1031821
- Date first listed:
- 13-Dec-1974
- List Entry Name:
- 42, 44 AND 44A, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 42, 44 AND 44A, 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:
- 42, 44 AND 44A, 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 90760 63645
Details
1. 5282 HIGH STREET (North Side) SITTINGBOURNE Nos 42 and 44 No 44A TQ 9063 NE 2/4 II GV 2. This block was built in 1708 by Robert Jeffs and originally called Rose Place. Later in the century it became the Rose Inn which was called in Hasted's "History of Kent" "the most superb of any [inn] throughout the kingdom and the entertainment afforded in it equally so". The Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria stayed there in 1825, after which it was renamed the Royal Victoria Hotel. It ceased to be a hotel after the railway had undermined the importance of Sittingbourne as a coaching station on the Dover Road. 3 storeys brown brick with red brick window dressings. Tiled roof and wooden modillion cornice with consoles below some of the modillions, 6 sashes with most glazing bars intact above the ground floor. Stone plaque between the 1st and 2nd floor with the model of a red rose and the letters "RI". and the date 1708. Modern shop fronts.
Nos 30 to 62 (even) form a group.
Listing NGR: TQ9076063645
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175788
- 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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