Watercress Cottage in Garden of Parsonage Farm, and Wall Adjoining
WATERCRESS COTTAGE IN GARDEN OF PARSONAGE FARM, AND WALL ADJOINING, THE STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086244
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Watercress Cottage in Garden of Parsonage Farm, and Wall Adjoining
- Statutory Address:
- WATERCRESS COTTAGE IN GARDEN OF PARSONAGE FARM, AND WALL ADJOINING, THE STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086244
- Date first listed:
- 20-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Watercress Cottage in Garden of Parsonage Farm, and Wall Adjoining
- Statutory Address 1:
- WATERCRESS COTTAGE IN GARDEN OF PARSONAGE FARM, AND WALL ADJOINING, THE 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:
- WATERCRESS COTTAGE IN GARDEN OF PARSONAGE FARM, AND WALL ADJOINING, THE STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Boxley
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 77401 58935
Details
TQ 75 NE BOXLEY THE STREET (east side)
5/84 Watercress Cottage in garden of Parsonage Farm, and wall adjoining
G.V. II
Cottage. C18, built partly with re-used medieval stone. Ground floor of north elevation of galletted stone with brick patches and brick band, first floor of ashlared chalk lump. West gable end tarred weatherboarding. Plain tile roof. 1½ storeys. Roof hipped at east end and half-hipped at west end. 2 pro- jecting brick stacks; towards west end of north elevation and on east gable end. One 2-light casement on each floor in west gable end. Small hipped dormer in east hip of roof. Plank door and ground floor 2-light casement together under brick relieving arch to right of stack in east gable end. Wall adjoining cottage to north and south. Medieval. Now encloses north-east corner of garden. To south forms rear wall of a weather boarded barn. To north, runs approx. 6 yds north of cottage, then returning approx. 3 yards to west. Approx. 10 feet high. Galletted chalk lump with thick band of flint on tall galletted chalk lump plinth.
Listing NGR: TQ7740158935
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173590
- 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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