Valence House
VALENCE HOUSE, BROAD STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060903
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Valence House
- Statutory Address:
- VALENCE HOUSE, BROAD STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060903
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Valence House
- Statutory Address 1:
- VALENCE HOUSE, BROAD 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:
- VALENCE HOUSE, BROAD STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Sutton Valence
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 81400 49210
Details
SUTTON VALENCE BROAD STREET TQ 8049-8149 (south side) 7/116 Valence House 20.10.52 GV II
House, now part of school. 1596 with later additions to rear. Timber framed, rendered, with plain tile roof. Lobby entry plan. 2 storeys and attics. Symmetrical facade. Right and left gable ends slightly jettied at eaves. 2 gabled dormers rising from eaves to front, very slightly jettied, on moulded brackets, at eaves of house, and again at eaves of dormer. Moulded bargeboards and carved pendant to each gable. Central corbelled and filletted brick ridge stack. Regular fenestration of one 3-light wood mullion window to each gable. 2-storey canted bay beneath each gable of front elevation, with 3-light Ipswich window to each floor. 2-storey bay window on scrolled brackets to right gable end. Central projecting 2-storey porch, also with moulded bargeboard and pendant. Ipswich window to first floor. Ground floor enclosed except for frieze of turned balusters immediately under first floor on each side. Door of 2 broad panels. C19 rear additions Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ8140049210
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174135
- 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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