John's Hairdresser, Marsida, and The Old Sweet Shop
John's Hairdresser, Marsida, and The Old Sweet Shop, High Street, Marden, Tonbridge, TN12 9DP
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060658
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- John's Hairdresser, Marsida, and The Old Sweet Shop
- Statutory Address:
- John's Hairdresser, Marsida, and The Old Sweet Shop, High Street, Marden, Tonbridge, TN12 9DP
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060658
- Date first listed:
- 23-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- John's Hairdresser, Marsida, and The Old Sweet Shop
- Statutory Address 1:
- John's Hairdresser, Marsida, and The Old Sweet Shop, High Street, Marden, Tonbridge, TN12 9DP
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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:
- John's Hairdresser, Marsida, and The Old Sweet Shop, High Street, Marden, Tonbridge, TN12 9DP
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 74640 44540
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 18 September 2023 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 7444
5/75
MARDEN
HIGH STREET (south-west side)
John's Hairdresser, Marsida, and The Old Sweet Shop
(Formerly listed as John's Hairdresser, Marsida, No.3, and Vicky Clark)
GV
II
House and shop row. Late C17, with late C18 or early C19 facade. Timber framed. Ground floor red brick in Flemish bond, first floor hung with banded plain and fishscale tiles. Exposed framing to right side of passage to former No.3. Plain tile roof. Two relatively tall storeys. Moulded wooden fillet to base of tile-hanging. Gabled. Brick ridge stack towards left end and to right end. Irregular fenestration of three sixteen-pane sashes; one under and one to left of stack, nothing to centre, and one to right. Half-glazed door to John's shop-front to left, panelled door with rectangular three-light fanlight to Marsida to right of stack, with passage to former No.3 adjacent to it to right, and half-glazed door to right end of Vhe Old Sweet Shop's late C19 or early C20 shop-front to right end. Two short rear wings with roofs hipped to rear.
Interior: only partly inspected.The Old Sweet Shop has chamfered cross and axial beam to each floor, large shaped jowl and straight tension brace to rear corner post, and clasped-purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TQ7463944535
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174733
- 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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