Little London Cottage Saddlery Stores
LITTLE LONDON COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060729
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Little London Cottage Saddlery Stores
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE LONDON COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060729
- Date first listed:
- 25-Mar-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Little London Cottage Saddlery Stores
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE LONDON COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- SADDLERY STORES, 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:
- LITTLE LONDON COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- SADDLERY STORES, 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 78561 43189
Details
STAPLEHURST HIGH STREET TQ 7843 (West side)
5/144 Saddlery Stores and Little London Cottage
GV II
House pair and shop. C18, with C19 alterations. Timber framed, weatherboarded, with plain tile roof. 2 storeys and attic on painted brick plinth. Gabled. Gable end stack to left, and rear stack to left of centre. 2 small hipped 2-light dormers. Irregular fenestration of 3 sashes; two 4-pane sashes to Saddlery Stores and one 12-pane sash to Little London Cottage. 3 canted bay windows to ground floor, 2 with leaded roofs. Panelled door under flat bracketed hood between left and central windows, to Saddlery Stores. Half-glazed door with row of ventilation holes over and with flat bracketed hood, to right end of stores. Panelled door with reeded architrave and paterae adjacent to it between right and central windows, to Little London Cottage. Plain- tile pentice across door and bay window of Cottage. Short rear wing. Interior not inspected. Formerly known as C.R. Wood Sadler, and the adjoining house on the north, occupier Fletcher. Included for group value.
Listing NGR: TQ7856143183
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174610
- 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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