Bridge Cottage Kingsland Cottages
BRIDGE COTTAGE, BENOVER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060619
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Cottage Kingsland Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- BRIDGE COTTAGE, BENOVER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060619
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bridge Cottage Kingsland Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- BRIDGE COTTAGE, BENOVER ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- KINGSLAND COTTAGES, BENOVER ROAD
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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:
- BRIDGE COTTAGE, BENOVER ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- KINGSLAND COTTAGES, BENOVER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Yalding
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 69729 49935
Details
YALDING BENOVER ROAD TQ 6949 (north-east side) 7/42 (Formerly known as High Street, 22-12-78 East-West Arm) Nos. 1-4 (inclusive) Kingsland Cottages, and Bridge Cottage(formerly listed as Prentice GV II Store)
House row. Left end possibly formerly a special purpose building. Right section late C18 or early C19. Left section has late C18 or early C19 facade to a possibly earlier core. Left section has red brick in Flemish bond to ground floor, and tile-hung first floor, Chequered red and grey brick to both floors of right section. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attics. Brick and rendered plinth to left section, ragstone plinth with brick top course to right. Red and grey brick plat band in English bond to right section. Moulded wooden eaves cornice to whole row. Half hipped roof. Brick stack in front slope of roof to left of centre, rear stack to right of centre, and projecting red and grey brick gable end stack to right. Five small hipped dormers. Irregular fenestration of 5 wooden casements; none to left end, and two three-light flanking left stack, to left section, and one three-light and two two-light with segmental heads to right section. Segmental heads to ground-floor casements of both sections. Boarded door in architrave with pulvinated frieze and modillioned cornice, up three steps towards front of left gable end, to Bridge Cottage. Blocked doorway, now containing two- light casement, towards centre of section between left stack and left end. Plain door under left stack to No. 1; door with six fielded panels to left end of right section (towards centre of whole range), to No. 2; and pair of half-glazed doors between central and right windows of right section, to Nos. 3 and 4. Two or three steps, and flat floating hood to each door, (hoods to Nos. 3 and 4 continuous). Rear lean-to to whole range. Interior: only partly inspected. Softwood axial beams, steep rear staircase and roof of (probably) staggered butt purlins to No. 2.
Listing NGR: TQ6972949935
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174841
- 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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