Bell House
Bell House, East Street, Harrietsham, Maidstone, ME17 1HJ
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086144
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Bell House
- Statutory Address:
- Bell House, East Street, Harrietsham, Maidstone, ME17 1HJ
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086144
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Bell House
- Statutory Address 1:
- Bell House, East Street, Harrietsham, Maidstone, ME17 1HJ
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:
- Bell House, East Street, Harrietsham, Maidstone, ME17 1HJ
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harrietsham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 87098 52417
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 25 September 2023 to update the name and address, amend description due to a change of building use and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 85 SE
4/29
HARRIETSHAM
EAST STREET (south-west side)
Bell House
(Formerly listed as The Bell Inn)
26.4.68.
GV
II
Former public house. C16 or earlier wing, front range 1729. Front range: ground floor coursed galletted stone, first floor painted brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. Two storeys on moulded stone plinth. Plat band under three of first floor windows only. Boxed eaves cornice. Hipped roof. Rear stack to left end. Regular fenestration of four glazing bar sashes in open boxes. Ground floor has late C19 sashes with horns. Half-glazed and panelled door with plain rectangular fanlight under second window from left. Heavy late C19 bracketted hood over door, with dentilled frieze and moulded triangular pediment. Datestone to first floor. Rear wing to left: in two sections. Timber-framed, tile-hung, with plain tile roof. Single bay adjoining front range two storeys, with large red brick stack at rear end, in right slope of roof. Approximately two further timber-framed bays with more steeply pitched roof, also two storeys, with lean-to to left side, hip to rear, and small stack. Short right return wing C19, brick and tile-hung, two storeys.
Interior only partly inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ8704052442
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173762
- 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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