Cross Keys Cottage Cross Keys Cottages
CROSS KEYS COTTAGE, THE STREET
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Overview
- 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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- 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
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:
- 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.
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