Godfrey House
GODFREY HOUSE, EYHORNE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1054873
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Godfrey House
- Statutory Address:
- GODFREY HOUSE, EYHORNE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1054873
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Godfrey House
- Statutory Address 1:
- GODFREY HOUSE, EYHORNE 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:
- GODFREY HOUSE, EYHORNE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Hollingbourne
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 83762 54773
Details
HOLLINGBOURNE EYHORNE STREET TQ 8354 (East side)
9/132 Godfrey House
20.10.52
II*
House. Late C16. Restored 1859. Timber framed with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. Lobby entry plan. 2 storeys and attics on stone plinth. Close studding to ground floor, first floor with studs to corner and flanking the windows. Ogee tension braces to first floor and dormers. Continuous jetty with moulded bressumer. Projecting porch to left of centre, of 2 storeys and attic, jettied to front on first floor, to 3 sides on moulded dragon posts at wall-plate level of house, and to front at eaves level of dormer. Attic jettied to left gable end. Brick ridge stack of 4 octagonal corbelled flues to left of centre. Projecting brick stack to right gable end with octagonal corbelled flues. 3 eaves dormers with jettied gables, one to left and 2 to right of porch, each with one 2-light mullioned window. One 3-light mullioned window to gable over porch. One 10-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed first-floor oriel window with moulded cornice and plastered ogee base immediately below each eaves dormer, and one of 6 lights to first floor of porch. 3 rectangular ground-floor bays with 10-light ovolo-moulded mullioned and transomed windows on stone bases. Ribbed door to porch. Tablet over door inscribed "Godfrey House. Built 1587, restored 1859." Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ8376254773
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174360
- 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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