Forstal Cottages
FORSTAL COTTAGES, 4 AND 5, LENHAM FORSTAL ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060981
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Forstal Cottages
- Statutory Address:
- FORSTAL COTTAGES, 4 AND 5, LENHAM FORSTAL ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1060981
- Date first listed:
- 14-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Forstal Cottages
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORSTAL COTTAGES, 4 AND 5, LENHAM FORSTAL ROAD
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:
- FORSTAL COTTAGES, 4 AND 5, LENHAM FORSTAL ROAD
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 91332 50298
Details
LENHAM LENHAM FORSTAL ROAD TQ 95 SW
5/187 Forstal Cottages 4 and 5 GV II House, now house row. Possibly C16 core with C17, C18 and C20 alterations. Timber-framed core. Front elevation channelled stucco. Left gable end C20 tile-hanging. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys on plinth. Plain 2-storey buttress to either end of front elevation. Half-hipped roof. Central brick ridge stack. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows; one 2-light casement, one central single light and one 3-light casement. Boarded door to No. 4 beneath stack and ribbed door to No. 5 in C20 extension to right. Interior: Fragment of substantial tie-beam with evidence for crown post. Cambered axial tie-beam from former storeyed end bay now part of ground-floor ceiling. Large C17 inglenook. Eaves raised, probably in C18. Interior No. 5 not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ9133250298
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173922
- 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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