Mote House

MOTE HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1086257
Date first listed:
20-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:
Mote House
Statutory Address:
MOTE HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1086257
Date first listed:
20-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:
Mote House
Statutory Address 1:
MOTE HOUSE, CHURCH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
MOTE HOUSE, CHURCH LANE

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

County:
Kent
District:
Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:
Bearsted
National Grid Reference:
TQ 80089 55459

Details

TQ 85 NW BEARSTED CHURCH LANE (east side)

6/8 Mote House II

House. C19 with possibly earlier core. Rendered front with plain tile roof. 2 storeys, 3 main blocks. Left block: steeply pitched hipped roof. Small stack on left gable end. Irregular fenestra- tion of 2 small first-floor casements with segmental heads to left and in centre and one glazing bar sash at right end. Small clock between left and central windows. C20 single-storey exten- sion at left end. Porch with 2 Doric columns carrying entablature and flat hood. Right block: projects forward, with hipped roof. Rear stack. One first-floor glazing bar sash at left end. Rest of facade obscured by 2 storey C20 extension with a pitched plain tile roof, slightly projecting central stack and segmental headed windows. Roof line of a lower rear range visible between the two front blocks, but the rear elevation of this appears C19.

Listing NGR: TQ8008955459

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
173515
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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