Old Church Cottage
OLD CHURCH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055737
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Church Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OLD CHURCH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1055737
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Old Church Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD CHURCH COTTAGE, 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:
- OLD CHURCH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Marden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 74451 44615
Details
TQ 7444 MARDEN HIGH STREET (north side)
5/58 Old Church Cottage
GV II
House or special purpose building formerly shop, now house. Late C16, with C18 and C19 additions and alterations. Timber framed, weatherboarded, with plain tile roof. Two timber-framed bays, possibly a fragment of a slightly larger building. Two storeys and garret, on rendered plinth. Gabled. Brick ridge stack to left of centre (to right end of left bay). Irregular fenestration of two leaded casements; one two-light to left and one three-light to right. C18 single-bay painted brick addition (or rebuilding) to right, with plain tile roof, tall red brick stack in front slope of roof towards centre, small gabled rear dormer, and three-light segmental-headed rear ground-floor casement. Single-storey C19 painted brick extension projecting forwards from, and same width as, C18 section, with half-hipped roof to front and with slightly bowed multipane gable-end shop window. Panelled door to left of shop window. Interior: C16 section has exposed framing, with broad curved tension braces, chamfered axial beams, and shaped jowls to principal posts. Plain brick fireplace, possibly C17 or early C18, to right side of stack only. Clasped purlin roof with windbraces and diminishing principal rafters, largely re-assembled, with ridge-piece, in C19. Semi-circular brick fireplace to C18 section. Formerly known as The Hill Tea Room. Marked on OS. map as Church Hill Cottage. Abuts churchyard to left and rear.
Listing NGR: TQ7445144615
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174716
- 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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