Little Benover Cottage Well Cottage
LITTLE BENOVER COTTAGE, BENOVER ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115410
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Little Benover Cottage Well Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE BENOVER COTTAGE, BENOVER ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1115410
- Date first listed:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Little Benover Cottage Well Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE BENOVER COTTAGE, BENOVER ROAD
- Statutory Address 2:
- WELL COTTAGE, BENOVER ROAD
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:
- LITTLE BENOVER COTTAGE, BENOVER ROAD
- Statutory Address:
- WELL COTTAGE, BENOVER 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 70181 48557
Details
YALDING BENOVER ROAD TQ 74 NW (South-west side) 4/67 Little Benover Cottage and Well Cottage II
House pair. Early C17 with later alterations. Timber framed. Front elevation rendered, with exposed full-height posts. Plain tile roof. Two timber-framed bays to left of centre, and possibly a further two to right. 2 storeys, on rendered plinth. Front elevation possibly rebuilt in late C17 or C18, with three full-height posts delineating two left bays. Exposed midrail and three studs to right of centre. Roof half- hipped to left, gabled to right. Projecting brick gable-end stack to left, and gable-end stack to right. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements; one three-light to left end, one two-light to left-central bay, one three-light towards right end, and leaded single light under right stack. Ribbed door under lean-to brick porch to right end of left bay, to Little Benover Cottage. Boarded door in similar porch to right end to Well Cottage. Rendered lean-to to left, and red and grey brick lean-to with rendered gable to right. Interior: only partly inspected. Three late C16 or early C17 gunstock-jowled posts to rear wall of Little Benover Cottage, the central post of the three not aligned with front elevation post. Tie-beam to right post of the three, with clasped-purlin truss above it. Said to be more framing to right. Formerly known as Myrtle Cottage and Linton Cottage.
Listing NGR: TQ7017848560
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174866
- 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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