Maydekin Cottage
MAYDEKIN COTTAGE, CANTERBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068743
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1978
- List Entry Name:
- Maydekin Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MAYDEKIN COTTAGE, CANTERBURY ROAD
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- 2003-02-14
- Reference:
- IOE01/09999/29
- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1068743
- Date first listed:
- 22-Dec-1978
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 28-May-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Maydekin Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MAYDEKIN COTTAGE, CANTERBURY 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:
- MAYDEKIN COTTAGE, CANTERBURY ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Dover (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Denton with Wootton
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 21575 47364
Details
TR 24 NW DENTON AND WOOTTON CANTERBURY ROAD (west side) 1/47 Maydekin Cottage 22.12.78 (formerly listed as Nos. 1 and 2 Maydekin Cottages) GV II House. Dated 1646 and 1688. Red brick in mixed English and Flemish bond with some flint. Plain tiled roof. One storey and attic with 2 storey cross-wing on discontinuous plinth with hipped roof. Stacks to centre left and to right, and with 1 flat roofed dormer. Gable to right with plat band and cornice, raised over 2 blocked windows on first floor, with 1 wooden casement on first floor, 1 metal casement on ground floor, and 2 wooden casements to left on ground floor. Two blocked doorways to centre right. Slate roofed outshot to right. Present entry by boarded door in C20 rear outshot. Several stones are set into the brickwork on centre of main (roadside) elevation, bearing a variety of initials and dates, including some with Latin inscriptions, the principal one referring to the Oxenden family and dated MDCXLVI (1646).
Listing NGR: TR2157547364
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 178576
- 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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