Bell Cottage, Steps and Handrail
BELL COTTAGE, STEPS AND HANDRAIL, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060724
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Cottage, Steps and Handrail
- Statutory Address:
- BELL COTTAGE, STEPS AND HANDRAIL, HIGH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060724
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Bell Cottage, Steps and Handrail
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELL COTTAGE, STEPS AND HANDRAIL, HIGH STREET
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:
- BELL COTTAGE, STEPS AND HANDRAIL, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Staplehurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 78573 42981
Details
STAPLEHURST HIGH STREET TQ 74 SE (West side)
3/135 Bell Cottage, steps and 23.5.67 handrail
GV II
Part of public house, now house. Late C16 or early C17. Timber framed. Ground floor red and grey brick in Flemish bond, first floor clad with banded plain and fishscale tiles. Both floors of long left side weatherboarded. Plain tile roof. Built at right- angles to road and formerly an integral part of the Bell public house to right. 2 storeys and cellar. First floor of front gable end jettied on moulded bressumer, which continues slightly to right of right end of gable. Solid-spandrel bracket to left of door. Jettied coved eaves to rear gable end. Stack not easily visible from road. One 3-light first-floor casement. Canted oriel window to ground floor, with cellar hatch under. Half-glazed door to right end, up 7 stone steps rising against wall of house, with plain iron handrail and stick balusters. Interior: only partly inspected. Ovolo-moulded cross and axial beams to ground floor of front room, with evidence for integral corridor down right side (within building). Blocked chamfered rectangular doorway towards front of right side. Inglenook fireplace. Public House to right (The Bell) rebuilt in early C20 after a fire. (see drawing in K. Gravett, Timber and Brick Building in Kent, 1971.)
Listing NGR: TQ7856742995
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174601
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Gravett, K, Timber and Brick Building in Kent, (1971)
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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