Willow Grove

WILLOW GROVE, HIGH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1099926
Date first listed:
23-May-1967
List Entry Name:
Willow Grove
Statutory Address:
WILLOW GROVE, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1099926
Date first listed:
23-May-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:
Willow Grove
Statutory Address 1:
WILLOW GROVE, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:
WILLOW GROVE, LEES ROAD

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
WILLOW GROVE, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
WILLOW GROVE, LEES ROAD

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

County:
Kent
District:
Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:
Yalding
National Grid Reference:
TQ 69562 49906

Details

YALDING LEES ROAD TQ 6949 (south-east side) 7/164 Willow Grove (formerly listed 23-5-67 under High Street, east-west Arm) GV II

House. Late C18, circa 1800, early C19, and mid C19. Front range painted brick with slate roof, rear range red and grey brick with plain tile roof. Late C18 house, with parallel front range added in c.1800. Early C19 addition to left end of front range, and mid C19 addition to left end of rear range. 2 storeys and attic. Front elevation: chamfered brick plinth. Plat band to c.1800 section. Plain parapet. Straight-joint in brickwork wall to left of centre. Gabled roof to each range. Projecting brick gable end stacks to front range. Three flat-roofed dormers with paned lights. Regular (c.1800) three-window front of bowed sixteen-pane sashes, each with plain frieze and moulded cornice; one to left and two to right of straight joint. Left ground-floor window similar, but without frieze and cornice, and with painted brick or mathematical tiles between it and first floor. Similar painted brick or tile bow under right window, but with later C19 flat-roofed rectangular ground-floor bay window under. Central half-glazed and panelled double doors with flat bracketed hood, up three stone steps. Rear elevation of late C18 section has dentilled brick eaves cornice, two hipped dormers, and regular three-window front of two three-light and central two-light leaded casements; segmental heads to ground-floor windows. Single-storey central red brick bakehouse to rear, with plain tile roof hipped to left, and gabled with stack to right. Weatherboarded section with plain tile roof between it and house. Interior: doors with two broad panels. Iron grates. Niches flanking fireplace. Walled staircases. Staggered butt purlin roof to late C18 section. Ceiled roof with long raking windbraces to c.1800 section.

Listing NGR: TQ6956249906

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
174965
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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