123, WEST STREET, 1, THE MARKET PLACE
1, THE MARKET PLACE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1069462
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 123, WEST STREET, 1, THE MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 1, THE MARKET PLACE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1069462
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- 123, WEST STREET, 1, THE MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1, THE MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address 2:
- 123, WEST STREET
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:
- 1, THE MARKET PLACE
- Statutory Address:
- 123, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Swale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Faversham
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 01548 61377
Details
THE MARKET PLACE 1. 1103 (West Side) ---------------- No 1 TR 0161 SE 3/2 29.7.50. II* GV
2. With No 125 West Street (North Side ), qv. Timber framed building, probably Cl7, refronted in the C18. 3 storeys and attic. 1 window facing east, 3 windows facing south. 1 dormer on the east front. The house is now fronted with painted mathematical tiles with timbering visible at the angles of the fronts and of the bays. The ground floor is now underbuilt with the shop front, but the 2nd floor still overhangs on both fronts on a bressumber and brackets. C18 modiliion eaves cornice. Steeply pitched hipped tiled roof. The east front has one, and the south front 2, bays of 5 lights each on the lst and 2nd floors, which are contemporary with the house. They have wooden mullions and transom. Those on the 2nd floor have small modern square leaded panes; original glazing in west window on 1st floor in No 123. The south front has an additional but smaller bay at the west end of the 1st floor (in No 123 West Street), also with the small square leaded panes and green glass. This and the next bay to the east on the 1st floor have a cove below the window. Both fronts have a good Cl8 shop front, the whole width of the premises, with a curved corner at the angle, This has no glazing bars for the whole width of No 1 Market Place, which is 3 quarters of the whole, but a fine pair of glazed double doors with ornamental panes. No 123 West Street retains its glazing bars in the shop window and has a pair of simpler glazed doors. Photograph in NMR.
All the listed buildings in the Market Place form a group. Also Nos 1 and 2, 4 to 7 (consec) and No 7A form a group with Nos 1 to 11 (consec) and 11A Court Street.
Listing NGR: TR0154261385
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175934
- 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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