3-17 High Street
3-17 High Street
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1184943
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 3-17 High Street
- Statutory Address:
- 3-17 High Street
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- Date:
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- Reference:
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- Rights:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1184943
- Date first listed:
- 04-Jun-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 3-17 High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- 3-17 High 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:
- 3-17 High Street
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Biddenden
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 85065 38392
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 9 May 2022 to update the name, address and description and to reformat the text to current standards
TQ 8538
16/51
BIDDENDEN
HIGH STREET (south side)
No 3, 5 (Ye Ancient House), Nos 7, 9 and 11 (The Maydes Restaurant), (New Biddenden Stores), 15 and 17
4.6.52.
GV
I
This timber-framed range, with a slightly curved front is reputed to have been one of the workshops of the weavers who were numerous in Biddenden in the Middle Ages. The first floor was one continuous workroom where the looms were fixed. C16 or earlier. Two storeys and attics timber framed with painted brick infilling. Tiled roof. Thirteen windows and nine hipped dormers in all. Casement windows with diamond-shaped or small square leaded panes.
No 3 has two small bays on the ground floor and a continuous tiled canopy over them.
Nos 5 and 7 each have one oriel window on the first floor of two tiers of seven lights with wooden mullions and transoms and three brackets below each. Two obtusely-pointed doorways below with 'Tate Door' inscribed over these and above this a plaster cast and painted head of a bearded man, previously claimed to have been taken from a wrecked ship of the Spanish Armada but now known to be a popular urban myth, the whole now covered by a tiled canopy.
Nos 11 and 13 have similar oriel windows of eight lights each.
Nos 9 and 15 have slightly projecting windows of four lights without brackets. Two-thirds of No 15 is stuccoed with a good modern shop window on the ground floor complete with glazing bars and one sash window with glazing bars above, also an iron bracket supporting a lantern.
No 17 has two oriel windows, one of seven lights and one of six lights, and two modern shop windows with a continuous tiled canopy above these.
Contemporary paving of Bethersden marble forms footpath in front and extending to south east about 12 yards.
Listing NGR: TQ8508938380
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 180154
- 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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