Lower Maypole Cottage
LOWER MAYPOLE COTTAGE, MAYPOLE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084685
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Maypole Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LOWER MAYPOLE COTTAGE, MAYPOLE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1084685
- Date first listed:
- 22-Jun-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Lower Maypole Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LOWER MAYPOLE COTTAGE, MAYPOLE LANE
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:
- LOWER MAYPOLE COTTAGE, MAYPOLE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tunbridge Wells (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Goudhurst
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 72397 37530
Details
GOUDHURST MAYPOLE LANE TQ 7237-7337 (east side) 15/224 Lower Maypole Cottage GV II House. C16 or earlier, altered c.1635 and c.1930. Timber framed and tile hung on red brick base, in part in English Bond. Part exposed imitation frame with plaster infill. Plain tiled roof that house origin, now 2 cell lobby entry. Two storeys and garret with half-hipped roof with moulded stack cluster off centre left. Three light, single and slight leaded wooden casements on 1st floor, and 3 light and 5 light mullioned and transomed window (dated 1778) to right on ground floor. Boarded door off-centre left. The exposed frame to lower left is mid C20. Casement windows to return and rear elevations. Cat- slide outshot to rear. Interior: right hand bay with moulded and brattished dais, beams at both ends, the upper floor with 2 tie beams, that interrupted by the stack will be stump of a crown post. A further framed bay to end right indicated by framing, now lost. Newel stairs in catslide and fireplace bres- summer dated 1635. Mullioned and transomed window signed in several places 'Lambert' and '78' (Lambert was recorded as glazier in C18).
Listing NGR: TQ7239737530
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 169574
- 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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