7, HIGH STREET
7, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086116
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- 7, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 7, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086116
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- 7, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 7, HIGH 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:
- 7, HIGH STREET
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 89821 52125
Details
LENHAM HIGH STREET TQ 8952 (east side)
10/165 No. 7 26.4.68. GV II
House and possibly shop. Early C18, possibly with earlier core. Red brick with occasional grey headers in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. Double depth. Front section on ground floor divided into one large room with narrow room to right. Rear section probably one room, with stairs partitioned off against left wall and stack to right. 2 storeys, attic and cellar. Roof of front section half-hipped to left. Rear elevation has 2 adjacent hips. Rear brick stack to right. Central gabled dormer. Regular 3-window front of glazing-bar sashes. 3-light late C19 shop window to left of ground floor. Recessed central door of 4 fielded and 2 flush panels, with panelled architrave, up 4 steps. Doorcase with pilasters with narrow sunk panels bearing flat bracketted hood. Rear elevation has central door with flush panels and flat bracketted hood, up 4 steps, with railing to one side. Interior: Plain C18 sunk panelling to ground floor. Front right-hand room on ground floor also has shutters, dado rail and moulded cornice. Iron grates. Side purlin roof. Rear section slightly lower than front, with wall-plates morticed for studs.
Listing NGR: TQ8982152125
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173900
- 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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