Church Cottage Church Cottages the Hollies
CHURCH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145918
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage Church Cottages the Hollies
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1145918
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Oct-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage Church Cottages the Hollies
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- CHURCH COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 3:
- THE HOLLIES, HIGH STREET
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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.
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:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- THE HOLLIES, HIGH STREET
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 69878 50136
Details
YALDING HIGH STREET TQ 6950 (east side) 6/109 Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Church Cottages, 23-5-67 The Hollies, and Church Cottage (formerly listed under High Street, North Arm, as Church Cottages) GV II
House row. Probably C17, with C18 alterations, partly C18 facade, and late C18 addition to right. Timber framed. Exposed principal posts with red brick infilling to ground floor, first floor plastered to front. Right return weatherboarded on both floors. Long left side of wing stone on ground floor, timber-framed above. Right addition red brick to ground floor, red and grey mathematical tiles to first floor. Plain tile roofs. Main range approximately 5 timber-framed bays, with rear return wing to right of at least 3 timber-framed bays. Shorter late C18 addition at right-angles to, and towards rear of, long right side of wing. 2 storeys and attics. Roof of main range half-hipped to left, hipped to right, hip returning to rear. Right addition gabled to right, with similar eaves to main range, but lower ridge. Projecting brick gable end stack to left, and ridge stack to left of centre (apparently to left end of third timber-framed bay from left). Brick ridge stack to rear of second timber-framed bay of wing, and projecting red and grey brick gable end stack to right addition. Three flat-roofed two- light dormers to main range, two to right return, and one to right addition. Irregular fenestration of 9 casements; two small two-light to left of main range stack, one three-light and two small two-light to right, one two-light and one three-light to right return, and one two-light and one three-light to right addition. Boarded door with flat bracketed hood to right end of left end bay, to No. 3. Ribbed door with rectangular light towards left end of fourth bay from left, to No. 2. Half-glazed door to No. 1 towards right end, with-unbracketed plain-tile canopy, painted round base in late C18 lettering "Hats by Retail". Rear first-floor door to The Hollies, towards centre of main range. Half-glazed door with flat corniced hood to right addition, to Church Cottage. Rear lean-to to right addition. Gas bracket over second ground-floor window from right end of main range. Interior: only partly inspected. Right end bay of main range has chamfered beams, gunstock-jowled posts, and curved first-floor tension- braces to right gable end. Front bays of wing also have exposed framing, and stone stack bearing (added?) date 1742. Daub infilling. First-floor room towards centre of main range has shaped gunstock jowls and re-used ovolo-moulded timber. Face-halved wall-plate scarf joints to centre and right end of main range and to wing. Right end of main range probably used as Milliner's towards end of C18.
Listing NGR: TQ6989050111
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 174907
- 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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