CROSS KEYS COTTAGE CROSS KEYS COTTAGES

CROSS KEYS COTTAGE, THE STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1086269
Date first listed:: 20-Jul-1984
List Entry Name:: CROSS KEYS COTTAGE CROSS KEYS COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: CROSS KEYS COTTAGE, THE STREET

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Date:: 2004-03-02
Reference:: IOE01/11805/15
Rights:: © Mr Gordon Richards. Source: Historic England Archive

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1086269
Date first listed:: 20-Jul-1984
Date of most recent amendment:: 06-Jan-1988
List Entry Name:: CROSS KEYS COTTAGE CROSS KEYS COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: CROSS KEYS COTTAGE, THE STREET
Statutory Address 2:: CROSS KEYS COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, THE STREET

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

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: CROSS KEYS COTTAGE, THE STREET
Statutory Address:: CROSS KEYS COTTAGES, 1 AND 2, THE STREET

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 80468 55727

Details

In the entry for:

TQ 85 NW BEARSTED THE STREET (north side)

Cross Keys Cottage 6/39

The address shall be amended to read:

TQ 85 NW BEARSTED THE STREET (north side)

6/39 Cross Keys Cottage and Nos 1 and 2 Cross Keys Cottages

The description shall be amended to read:

House and 2 cottages. Cross Keys Cottage is late C16 or early C17. Nos 1 and 2 Cross Keys Cottage are early to mid C19. Cross Keys Cottage is timber framed under painted pebble-dash with applied framing on the first floor of the front elevation. Plain tiled roof. Built at right angles to the road. 2 storeys and attics, roof half-hipped at left end and hipped to right. No obvious stack. 3 dormers with ornamental bargeboards, 2 to front elevation and one in right end hip. 3 timber framed bays. Irregular fenestration of 3 glazing bar sashes, one to left and 2 towards right. 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window to right of left sash. C20 glazed door off centre to left, under the mullioned window, in a C20 glazed porch with pitched plain tile roof. Small C20 extension to right. Interior has exposed beams joists and posts. Nos 1 and 2 Cross Keys Cottages are early C19 to mid C19. Two storeys. No 1 is mainly painted brick and rest of No 1 and No 2 are painted brick on the ground floor and tile hung in alternate 3 courses of plain and curved tiles on the first floor. Tiled roof with 2 brick chimneystacks. South west front of No 1 has 1 12-paned sash and gabled weatherboarded porch with side light and bargeboard with finial and pendant. North west front has 1 gabled dormer with barge boards and 3 windows, 1 12-pane sash and 2 C20 casements. Cambered dormers to No 1 and gabled weather porch with bargeboard and finial to No 2.

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TQ 85 NW BEARSTED THE STREET (north side)

6/39 Cross Keys Cottage

II

House. Late C16 or early C17. Timber framed under painted pebble-dash with applied framing on first floor of front elevation. Plain tile roof. Right angles to road. 2 storeys and attics, roof half-hipped at left end and hipped to right. No obvious stack. 3 dormers with ornamental bargeboards, 2 to front eleva- tion and one in right end hip. 3 timber-framed bays. Irregular fenestration of 3 glazing bar sashes, one to left and 2 towards right. 2-light ovolo-moulded mullion window to right of left sash. C20 glazed door off-centre to left, under the mullioned window, in a C20 glazed porch with pitched plain tile roof. Small C20 extension to right. Interior: has exposed beams, joists and posts.

Listing NGR: TQ8046455725

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 173545
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.