The Tickled Trout

The Tickled Trout, Lower Road, West Farleigh, Maidstone, ME15 0PE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1060617
Date first listed:
14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
The Tickled Trout
Statutory Address:
The Tickled Trout, Lower Road, West Farleigh, Maidstone, ME15 0PE
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Date:
2004-10-18
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1060617
Date first listed:
14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
The Tickled Trout
Statutory Address 1:
The Tickled Trout, Lower Road, West Farleigh, Maidstone, ME15 0PE

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
The Tickled Trout, Lower Road, West Farleigh, Maidstone, ME15 0PE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Kent
District:
Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:
West Farleigh
National Grid Reference:
TQ 71308 52689

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 June 2023 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 75 SW
2/32

WEST FARLEIGH
LOWER ROAD (West side)
The Tickled Trout

(Formerly listed as The Chequers Public House)

GV
II
Public house. 1840s, with C18 section to right. Pebbledashed. Left gable end red and grey brick. Plain tile roof. Two storeys, on rendered plinth, left section with higher eaves than right. Left section gabled, left gable with brick eaves band and banded brick verges. Roof of right section half-hipped to right. Two tall filleted C19 red and grey brick stacks to rear of left section and one to rear left wing, with moulded plinths and corbelled capitals. Projecting red brick stack to right gable end of right section. Irregular fenestration of five casements; one two-light and two three-light to left section, and one three-light and one four-light to right section. Bay window to left end of ground floor. Half-glazed door with segmental head towards centre, and another towards right end of left section. Boarded door towards centre of right section. Two storey red and grey brick rear wing set back from left gable end.

Interior not inspected. Included for group value.

Listing NGR: TQ7130852689

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
174835
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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