Tosca and Belarica Cottage

Tosca and Belarica Cottage, Roman Road, Aldington, Ashford, TN25 7DS

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1071226
Date first listed:
10-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
Tosca and Belarica Cottage
Statutory Address:
Tosca and Belarica Cottage, Roman Road, Aldington, Ashford, TN25 7DS
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1071226
Date first listed:
10-Aug-1988
List Entry Name:
Tosca and Belarica Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
Tosca and Belarica Cottage, Roman Road, Aldington, Ashford, TN25 7DS

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
Tosca and Belarica Cottage, Roman Road, Aldington, Ashford, TN25 7DS

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

County:
Kent
District:
Ashford (District Authority)
Parish:
Aldington
National Grid Reference:
TR 06319 36568

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 February 2026 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards

TR 03 NE
4/52

ALDINGTON
ROMAN ROAD (south side)
Tosca and Belarica Cottage

(formerly listed as Beulah and Belarica Cottage)

GV
II
House row and shop. C16, altered and extended C18-C20. Timber framed and clad and extended with painted brick and tile hanging, with plain tiled roofs. The main core of two storeys on plinth with hipped roof with gablets and stack to centre right. Three wooden casements on first floor and two on ground floor, with half-glazed central door with flat hood on brackets. Extended to right and partly overbuilt by Belerica Cottage, two storeys, the upper tile hung, with two wooden casements on first floor, and C20 bow on ground floor with glazed door to left. Projecting at left, Tosca retains single storey pediment-gabled shop front with bowed window extended to left by two storey block, weather boarded on first floor, with C20 bowed window. Further hipped ranges to rear (extended late C20 rear left).

Listing NGR: TR0631236571

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
181637
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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