Old Kent Cottage
OLD KENT COTTAGE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061087
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Old Kent Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- OLD KENT COTTAGE
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1061087
- Date first listed:
- 27-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Old Kent Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD KENT COTTAGE
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:
- OLD KENT COTTAGE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Newington
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 17673 37503
Details
TR 13 NE NEWINGTON Frogholt
4/45 Old Kent Cottage 27.8.52 GV II
House. Possibly early C14. Timber framed with rendered infilling. Painted brick infilling to right end bay. Left gable end tile-hung on first floor. Thatched roof. Built at right-angles to road. Two-bay open hall with storeyed bay to each end. 1½ storeys on painted stone plinth. Left gable end jettied. Frame of relatively thin-scantling timber, with broadly- spaced studding. Front elevation of right end bay rebuilt with square panels. Broad low window cill across left hall bay. Straight brace to left side of right hall bay. Roof half-hipped to left, hipped to right Filleted C20 brick stack to right end of right hall bay. Irregular fenestration of one 3-light leaded casement to left hall bay. One 2-light leaded casement to first floor of left gable end. Boarded door under stock. Interior not inspected. Hall said never to have been floored. (E.W. Parkin, unpublished report in National Monuments Record).
Listing NGR: TR1767337503
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175621
- 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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