DOUGLAS ALMSHOUSES (NORTH ROW)

DOUGLAS ALMSHOUSES (NORTH ROW), FAVERSHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1086111
Date first listed:: 07-May-1971
List Entry Name:: DOUGLAS ALMSHOUSES (NORTH ROW)
Statutory Address:: DOUGLAS ALMSHOUSES (NORTH ROW), FAVERSHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1086111
Date first listed:: 07-May-1971
List Entry Name:: DOUGLAS ALMSHOUSES (NORTH ROW)
Statutory Address 1:: DOUGLAS ALMSHOUSES (NORTH ROW), FAVERSHAM ROAD

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:: DOUGLAS ALMSHOUSES (NORTH ROW), FAVERSHAM ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Lenham
National Grid Reference:: TQ 89850 52248

Details

LENHAM FAVERSHAM ROAD TQ 8952 (west side)

10/151 Douglas Almshouses 7.5.71 (North Row) GV II Almshouses. Mid C19. Red brick, largely in header bond, with plain tile roof. Small area of banded plain and fishscale tile- hanging on first-floor, off-centre to left. At right-angles to road, forming north side of an unenclosed courtyard and with former mortuary between end of row and road. 2 storeys. Projecting eaves with flat soffits. Brick ridge stack to each end of row and 2 towards centre. Irregular fenestration of 8 windows; seven 2- light hoizontally-sliding sashes and one single-light casement. Ground floor windows with segmental heads. 2 half-glazed doors, one beneath tile-hanging and another immediately to right, with blocked door to left end. Interior not inspected. See also Faversham Road, Douglas Almshouses, south row.

Listing NGR: TQ8985452246

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Legacy System number:: 173886
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.