Cobblestones Restaurant
COBBLESTONES RESTAURANT, BENOVER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060625
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Cobblestones Restaurant
- Statutory Address:
- COBBLESTONES RESTAURANT, BENOVER ROAD
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- 2005-04-12
- Reference:
- IOE01/13286/16
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060625
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Cobblestones Restaurant
- Statutory Address 1:
- COBBLESTONES RESTAURANT, BENOVER ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- COBBLESTONES RESTAURANT, LEES ROAD
- Statutory Address 3:
- COBBLESTONES RESTAURANT, THE SQUARE
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:
- COBBLESTONES RESTAURANT, BENOVER ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- COBBLESTONES RESTAURANT, LEES ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- COBBLESTONES RESTAURANT, THE SQUARE
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 69698 49924
Details
YALDING BENOVER ROAD TQ 6949 (South side) 7/55 Cobblestones 22.12.1978 Restaurant (formerly listed, under The Square, as Prentice Stores) GV II
House, formerly house and shop, now restaurant. Rear range early C17, front range mid-to-late C18 with mid-to-late C19 alterations. Rear range timber framed, gable ends clad with red and grey brick on ground floor, tile-hung on first floor. Front range chequered red and grey brick. Plain tile roof. Two parallel ranges; rear range of 4 timber-framed bays, with continuous jetty to former front elevation; front range possibly built with shop to right end of ground floor, altered in C19. Front range 2 storeys, rear range 2 slightly lower storeys and garret. Front elevation: red brick plat-band. Ionic-modillioned wooden eaves cornice. Gabled. Projecting red and grey brick end stacks in English bond. Brick stack to left of centre of rear range, with recessed round-headed panel. Regular 3-window front of one pair of four-paned sashes with central mullion, towards each end, and single central four-paned sash, all in open boxes, with red brick dressings and splayed rubbed brick voussoirs. One pair of sashes with panelled shutters to right end of ground floor, to right of first+floor window. C19 rectangular bay shop window to rest of ground floor, with moulded cornice and central half-glazed double doors with narrow margin lights. Door with two flush and two fielded panels, four- light rectangular fanlight and flat hood to right gable end of rear range. Short two-storey rear wing to right. Rear lean-to to rest. Interior: exposed framing to rear range, with chamfered beams and gunstock-jowled posts. Brick fireplace with shaped back and wooden mantleshelf to left end of left-central bay on first-floor, and fireplace to ground floor below. Straight early C19 staircase with turned balusters, clasped- purlin roof to each range, rear range with windbraces and vertical queen struts to collars, front range with cambered collars.
Listing NGR: TQ6969849924
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174854
- 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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