Lurcocks of Lenham and the Bow Window
LURCOCKS OF LENHAM AND THE BOW WINDOW, FAVERSHAM ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060956
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Lurcocks of Lenham and the Bow Window
- Statutory Address:
- LURCOCKS OF LENHAM AND THE BOW WINDOW, FAVERSHAM ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060956
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Lurcocks of Lenham and the Bow Window
- Statutory Address 1:
- LURCOCKS OF LENHAM AND THE BOW WINDOW, FAVERSHAM ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- LURCOCKS OF LENHAM AND THE BOW WINDOW, 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:
- LURCOCKS OF LENHAM AND THE BOW WINDOW, FAVERSHAM ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- LURCOCKS OF LENHAM AND THE BOW WINDOW, 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 89851 52221
Details
LENHAM THE SQUARE TQ 8952 (west side)
10/149 Lurcocks of Lenham 26.4.68. and the Bow Window (Formerly listed as premises of William Lurcock) GV II
2 Houses, now overlapping Shop and hairdresser's, with accommodation over shop. House to left (Lurcocks of Lenham): Early C16 or earlier with mid-to-late C16 addition, and early C18 and C19 alterations. Timber framed, front elevation weatherboarded, sides with exposed studding and plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. At right-angles to road. 5 bays long; 3 early C16 bays, and 2, to rear, mid-to-late C16. 2 storeys and garret. Roof half-hipped with gablet. Small 2-light horizontally-sliding sash to garret and rectangular first-floor bay window with corniced top. C19 ground-floor shop front with door. Interior: Exposed timbers. Plain crown-post with 2 upward and 2 downward braces. Reversed assembly in east gable end. Fragment of timber firehood. Small early window with leaded lights in north wall. C18 panelling, cornice ceiling beams;and windows with thick glazing bars on first floor. First floor originally jettied to front. House to right (The Bow Window): left-hand ground-floor bay used by Lurcocks. Mid C15 with C16 and early C18 alterations, and facade of 2 periods in early C19. Left 1/3 chequered red and grey brick, right 2/3 red brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof.Wealden, with hall of 2 unequal bays and one storeyed bay to left end (and possibly another to right, since demolished). 2 storeys and attic with plain wood eaves cornice. Red brick stack to left and brick ridge stack slightly off-centre to left. Hipped dormer towards right end. Irregular fenestration of 2 recessed 2-light glazing-bar case- ments to right and one recessed glazing-bar sash to left. Bowed Shop window to right on ground floor, and small bow window recessed within brick archtrave to left, between left end and passage doors. Panelled door to left end with recessed semi-circular panel above with rubbed brick voussoirs springing from plain imposts. Boarded door to passage, probably original cross-passage position, at left end of shorter left bay of hall. Half-glazed door with plain semi- circular brick head to right of passage. Interior: Moulded crown post on cambered tie-beam with solid hollow-chamfered braces and fillet. Ogee partition braces. Brattished moulded end-of-hall beam to right. Early C18 attic door with thick glazing bars. Exposed beams and posts.
Listing NGR: TQ8984752217
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173967
- 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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