April Cottage and Old Timbers
April Cottage and Old Timbers, The Green, Bearsted, ME14 4DN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086263
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- April Cottage and Old Timbers
- Statutory Address:
- April Cottage and Old Timbers, The Green, Bearsted, ME14 4DN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086263
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- April Cottage and Old Timbers
- Statutory Address 1:
- April Cottage and Old Timbers, The Green, Bearsted, ME14 4DN
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:
- April Cottage and Old Timbers, The Green, Bearsted, ME14 4DN
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 80078 55971
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17 October 2023 to amend the name, address and reformat the text to current standards
TQ 85 NW
6/20
BEARSTED
THE GREEN (north side)
April Cottage and Old Timbers
(Formerlly listed as Suefflé Restaurant and Old Timbers previously listed as April Cottage, Inglenook Cottage, Old Timbers,under the Street)
23.5.67
G.V.
II
House row, now restaurant and boutique, and house. Mid-to-late C18 front to older timber framed building. Chequered red and grey brick, plain tile roof. Left gable weatherboarded, right gable brick on ground floor with tile-hanging above, rear elevation weatherboarded. Two storeys and attics. Galletted stone plinth, platt band, wood modillion eaves cornice to half-hipped roof. Ridge stack slightly off-centre to left. four hipped dormers. Five glazing bar sashes on first floor. On ground floor, two glazing bar sashes with segmental heads to right and two C20 canted bay windows to left. Three doors; ribbed door towards right end, C20 panelled door towards centre and C20 glazed door to April Cottage.
Rear: remains of wing to left with higher, more steeply pitched roof and lower wing continuing north from it.
Interior: traces of a jetty along front elevation of April Cottage.
Listing NGR: TQ8008255969
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173527
- 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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