Wierton Cottage
WIERTON COTTAGE, WIERTON HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1049074
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Wierton Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WIERTON COTTAGE, WIERTON HILL
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/06608/14
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1049074
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Wierton Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WIERTON COTTAGE, WIERTON HILL
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:
- WIERTON COTTAGE, WIERTON HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Boughton Monchelsea
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 78060 49741
Details
BOUGHTON MONCHELSEA WIERTON HILL TQ 74 NE (East side)
2/66 Wierton Cottage
23.5.67 II
House. C14 or C15, with C17 and C19 alterations, and C19 facade. Timber framed, weatherboarded, with plain tile roof. Open hall of, probably, 3 timber-framed bays. Storeyed bay to each end. 2 storeys, on stone plinth. Underbuilt gable end jetty to right. Hipped roof with gablets. Multiple brick stack in front slope of roof slightly to right of centre (in central timber-framed bay). Truncated projecting brick stack to rear of right end bay. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements; no windows towards left end, three 3-light casements, and one 2-light casement under stack. Panelled door with 2 top lights in reeded architrave, behind half-glazed timber-framed porch under stack. Narrow C19 parallel rear range in stone and brick, with slate roof and 3 stacks. Interior: moulded right end-of-hall beam. Boxed steeply-cambered tie-beam to right-central hall truss. Long cut jowl to principal post of left-central hall truss. Sans-purlin collared common- rafter roof. C17 axial beams to first floor of left end bay and left hall bay. C17 moulded stone fireplace with 4-centred arched bressumer with leaf- spears to spandrels, to right side of stack; plain-chamfered stone fireplace and bressumer to left.
Listing NGR: TQ7806049741
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174530
- 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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