Drey Cottages
DREY COTTAGES, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1045819
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Drey Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- DREY COTTAGES, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1045819
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Drey Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- DREY COTTAGES, 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:
- DREY COTTAGES, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Staplehurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 78562 43174
Details
STAPLEHURST HIGH STREET TQ 7843 (West side)
5/143 Drey Cottages
GV II
House pair, C18 or earlier. Ground floor painted brick, first floor weatherboarded. Plain tile roof. 2 low storeys and attics. Gabled. Brick stack in front slope of roof to left of centre. Small 2-light dormer with lean-to roof. Irregular fenestration of 2 small 2-light wooden casements. Canted bay window to left side of ground floor and 3-light casement to right. Panelled door to left end, and towards right end, both with flat bracketed hoods. Rear lean-to. Interior not inspected. Formerly known as Cosy Nook and Fir Tree Cottage.
Listing NGR: TQ7856343171
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174609
- 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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