Dog and Bear Hotel the Stores
DOG AND BEAR HOTEL, THE SQUARE
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060955
- Date first listed:
- 20-Oct-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Dog and Bear Hotel the Stores
- Statutory Address:
- DOG AND BEAR HOTEL, THE SQUARE
Location
Location of this list entry and nearby places that are also listed. Use our map search to find more listed places.
Use of this mapping is subject to terms and conditions .
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale.
What is the National Heritage List for England?
The National Heritage List for England is a unique register of our country's most significant historic buildings and sites. The places on the list are protected by law and most are not open to the public.
The list includes:
 |
Buildings |
 |
Scheduled monuments |
 |
Parks and gardens |
 |
Battlefields |
 |
Shipwrecks |
Images of England Project
- Date:
- 2003-08-30
- Reference:
- IOE01/10268/16
- Rights:
- © Ms Lesley Feakes. Source: Historic England Archive
Local Heritage Hub
Unlock and explore hidden histories, aerial photography, and listed buildings and places for every county, district, city and major town across England.
Discover moreOfficial list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060955
- Date first listed:
- 20-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
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:
- 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
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173965
- 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.
Map
This map is for quick reference purposes only and may not be to scale. This copy shows the entry on 21-Jun-2026 at 20:10:12.
Download a full scale map (PDF)End of official list entry
All text content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 , except where otherwise stated. Any supplied maps are © Crown Copyright [and database rights] 2026 OS AC0000815036 and may not be reproduced without permission.