THE ANCHOR INN AND HOUSE ADJOINING TO REAR

THE ANCHOR INN AND HOUSE ADJOINING TO REAR, HAMPSTEAD LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1069056
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: THE ANCHOR INN AND HOUSE ADJOINING TO REAR
Statutory Address:: THE ANCHOR INN AND HOUSE ADJOINING TO REAR, HAMPSTEAD LANE

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1069056
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: THE ANCHOR INN AND HOUSE ADJOINING TO REAR
Statutory Address 1:: THE ANCHOR INN AND HOUSE ADJOINING TO REAR, HAMPSTEAD LANE

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: THE ANCHOR INN AND HOUSE ADJOINING TO REAR, HAMPSTEAD LANE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Yalding
National Grid Reference:: TQ 68998 49808

Details

YALDING HAMPSTEAD LANE TQ 6849 & 6949 (south-west side) 7/104 The Anchor Inn and House ajoining to rear GV II

House, outbuilding, or special purpose building (possibly a public house). Associated with canal, probably as public house, from about 1780, when canal and lock were constructed. C17 or earlier. Rear addition circa 1780. Situated on north-west bank of river Medway, in angle between river and west bank of canal, and facing into the angle. 5 timber-framed bays. Timber framed, rendered. Right gable end partly clad with painted brick. Thatched roof. 1 storeys. Roof hipped to left, half-hipped to right. Red brick ridge stack in narrow second bay from left. Small dormer with eight-paned casement, under slanted thatched roof to right of centre. Small raised thatched 'apron' under stack and under dormer. Irregular ground-floor fenestration of 3 paned casements; one two-light to left end, one shallow four-light 'oriel' on brackets towards centre, and one small casement towards right end. Boarded door to left of stack and half-glazed door to right of centre. Rear lean-to to right. Addition of c.1780 at right-angles to rear to left : brick ground floor, tile-hung rear half gable. Plain tile-roof. 1½ storeys, with half-hipped mansard roof. Red and grey brick stack to right side. Flat -roofed dormer to long left side. Small single light to rear gable end. Lean-to to long right side, built up to two storeys. Interior: gunstock-jowled posts to main range. Tie- beam to right end of left bay morticed for partition. Slightly higher ceiling to two bays right of stack. Axial beam to left end bay. Right end bay has close-set axial joists, stair trimmer to rear left corner, curved tension brace to front wall, and blocked two-light window with wooden cill. Other ceilings and roof-space plastered. Mid-to-late C20 addition to left not compatible.

Listing NGR: TQ6899849808

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Legacy System number:: 174901
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.