Rugmer Hill Cottages
RUGMER HILL COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, BENOVER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060624
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rugmer Hill Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- RUGMER HILL COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, BENOVER ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060624
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rugmer Hill Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- RUGMER HILL COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, BENOVER ROAD
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:
- RUGMER HILL COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, BENOVER ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Collier Street
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 71194 48100
Details
YALDING BENOVER ROAD TQ 74 NW (north-east side) 4/53 Nos. 1 and 2 Rugmer Hill Cottages GV II
House, now house pair. Early-to-mid C17, with C19 and C20 alterations. Timber framed, tile-hung on both floors. Plain tile roof. Roughly symmetrical central-entry plan of three timber-framed bays, that to centre narrower. 2 storeys and garret on ragstone plinth. Roof half-hipped to left, gabled to right. Projecting brick gable end stack to left, and large projecting C17 red brick stack with asymmetrical offsets, grey brick diaper work and truncated filleted flue, to right gable end. Irregular fenestration of 3 casements set well below eaves; two three-light and central two-light. Panelled door in brick lean-to to left, to No. 1, and ribbed door with hipped and bracketed plain-tile hood to centre, to No. 2. C17 or later rear lean-to to right; brick, partly in English bond, with brick plinth and integral rear brick stack to which lean-to is gabled. Less projecting mid C20 brick lean-to to rest of rear elevation. Interior: partly-exposed framing. Chamfered cross beam to right ground-floor room and chamfered axial beam to left. Chamfered plank-and-muntin partition between right room and entrance hall. Doorway with chamfered jambs and pegged dropped head, towards front of partition; jambs extend below cut cill-beam, to base of ragstone plinth, as do most doorways in the house, (possibly, here, an original arrangement.) Another to plain left wall opposite. Entrance-hall bay divided axially towards centre by pair of doorways similar to that in the partition, with boarded infilling above heads, and with jambs chamfered to rear side and rebated for doors to front side. Left doorway stands at base of winder staircase which rises from ground-floor to attic in rear half of central bay. Adjacent right doorway gives on to passage (under stairs) leading to a similar back doorway. First floor landing also has similar doorways to right and left, that to right with double quirked bead moulding. Chamfered axial beam to each first-floor room. Attic landing has moulded handrail with riven latticework under. Dropped tie-beams. No truss over left-central principal posts. Closed truss with interrupted tie-beam,doorway, and vertical queen struts to collars, over right-central posts. Blocked inglenook fireplace to right ground-floor room and C19 brick fireplace to left room. Inglenook fireplace with bread oven and wooden bressumer, to rear lean-to.
Listing NGR: TQ6982949705
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174852
- 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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