The Limes
THE LIMES, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086264
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address:
- THE LIMES, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1086264
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LIMES, THE GREEN
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:
- THE LIMES, THE GREEN
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 80110 55949
Details
TQ 85 NW BEARSTED THE GREEN (north side)
6/23 The Limes 23.5.67 (formerly listed under The Street) G.V. II
House. C15, C16 and C17. Rendered timber framing with plain tile roof. Open hall with storeyed ends. Hall and right cross- wing second half of C15; left wing, separately framed, early C16, all roofed at different heights. Re-roofed at same level late C16/early C17 when attic created and hall floor inserted to form continuous jetty? 2-storey rear lean-to at left end mid C17. Now 2 storeys and attic, jettied along front and formerly at both ends. Plain dragon post survives at left end. One other bay post visible on ground floor to right of dragon post. Coved eaves cornice, hipped roof. Off centre ridge stack to right. Plain central dormer with C20 casements. Regular fenestration of 3 first-floor C20 casements. C20 canted bays on ground floor to right and centre. Rectangu- lar C20 brick bay at right end with plain-tiled pentice over. C20 half-glazed door between canted bays and another in left end of brick bay. Rear wing to right with timber-framed core. Interior: in former hall area; moulded end-of-hall bressumers, moulded posts to central truss, "high" end partition, evidence for hall window, moulded beams to inserted ceiling, stone late C16 fireplace. In former right cross-wing, plain crown post. In left section, fragment of moulded wood front window jamb and mid Cl7 stone fireplaces to main room and lean- to on both floors.
Listing NGR: TQ8011255949
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173530
- 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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