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DOG AND BEAR HOTEL THE STORES

DOG AND BEAR HOTEL, THE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060955
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1952
List Entry Name:: DOG AND BEAR HOTEL THE STORES
Statutory Address:: DOG AND BEAR HOTEL, THE SQUARE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1060955
Date first listed:: 19-Oct-1952
Date of most recent amendment:: 14-Dec-1984
List Entry Name:: DOG AND BEAR HOTEL THE STORES
Statutory Address 1:: DOG AND BEAR HOTEL, THE SQUARE
Statutory Address 2:: THE STORES, THE SQUARE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: DOG AND BEAR HOTEL, THE SQUARE
Statutory Address:: THE STORES, THE SQUARE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Lenham
National Grid Reference:: TQ 89827 52188

Details

LENHAM THE SQUARE TQ 8952 (west side)

10/229 The Stores (formerly listed as Premises occupied by National 20.10.52. Provincial Bank and Hickin Bothom)

and The Dog and Bear Hotel. GV II

Two buildings, now Shop and Hotel. C15 or C16, with early-to-mid C19 facade to Stores and mid-to-late C19 facade to Hotel. Timber framed core. Painted brick ground floor and weatherboarded first floor to Stores, painted brick front to Hotel. Continuous plain tile roof, eaves of Hotel projecting slightly further. 2 storeys, with cellar to Hotel, on plinth. 4 red brick stacks; one ridge stack off-centre to right of stores, one small ridge stack at junction between Stores and Hotel, stack in rear slope of roof to left of centre of Hotel and slightly projecting stack to right gable end of Hotel. Stores has regular fenestration of 2 glazing-bar sashes and central canted first-floor bay window. C19 ground floor shop front flanked by gabled pilasters topped by decorative iron fleur-de-lys, 6-light plate-glass shop window with light painted iron arcading and central recessed half-glazed door. Door with 4 recessed panels and rectangular fanlight immedi- ately left of shop front. Hotel has irregular fenestration of 6 sashes. Corniced balcony to centre of ground floor supported on 4 iron columns with plain capitals and tall scrolled brackets. 2 half-glazed doors beneath balcony. Short rear wing to Store with hipped plain tile roof. Interior: evidence for jetty and for cross-passage with moulded joists, on ground floor of Dog and Bear. Rest of interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ8983052197

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The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 173965
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.