Baxter's Cottage, Eden Cottage and Oak Apple Cottage
Baxter's Cottage, Eden Cottage and Oak Apple Cottage, The Street, Bearsted, Maidstone, ME14 4EW
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185389
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1973
- List Entry Name:
- Baxter's Cottage, Eden Cottage and Oak Apple Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Baxter's Cottage, Eden Cottage and Oak Apple Cottage, The Street, Bearsted, Maidstone, ME14 4EW
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185389
- Date first listed:
- 13-Nov-1973
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 20-Jul-1984
- List Entry Name:
- Baxter's Cottage, Eden Cottage and Oak Apple Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Baxter's Cottage, Eden Cottage and Oak Apple Cottage, The Street, Bearsted, Maidstone, ME14 4EW
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:
- Baxter's Cottage, Eden Cottage and Oak Apple Cottage, The Street, Bearsted, Maidstone, ME14 4EW
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 80231 55855
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 17 October 2023 to amend the name, address and reformat the text to current standards
TQ 85 NW
6/38
BEARSTED
THE STREET (north side)
Baxter's Cottage, Eden Cottage and Oak Apple Cottage
(Formerly listed as Baxter's Cottage, Eden Cottage and Kozecot, previously listed as nos. 1,2, and 3 Sunnyside, Baxter's Cottage, Eden Cottage and Kozecot.)
13.11.73
II
Cottages. C16 and C18. Left part of Baxter's Cottage timber framed with red brick front. Rest of Baxter's Cottage and Eden Cottage chequered red and grey brick, Oak Apple Cottage rendered, all with plain tile roof. Left part of Baxter's Cottage: a lower building than the rest of the row. C16 with C18 front two storeys with plinth and platt band. Ridge stack at left end. One timber-framed bay with single C20 casement to each storey, that to ground floor with segmental head. Two-storey single-bay timber-framed addition to rear, late C16 or early C17, cement rendered with hipped plain tile roof and gablet. Right part of Baxter's Cottage, Eden Cottage and Oak Apple Cottage: C18. Two storeys and attic with plinth, platt band to Eden cottage only, and eaves cornice. Roof half-hipped at right end and half-hipped at left end above junction with left part of Baxter's cottage. Ridge stack off-centre to right. Two hipped dormers. One first-floor casement to each cottage over spaces between doors. Three doors with flat bracketted C19 hoods; ribbed door to Baxter's Cottage at left end, ribbed door to Eden Cottage towards centre, and plain C20 door with diamond light to Oak Apple Cottage towards right end. Rear catslide roof.
Interior: left part of Baxter's Cottage has evidence for window in right gable end wall on first floor of front bay, and exposed beams, joists and posts. Right part of Baxter's Cottage has side purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TQ8050755716
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173544
- 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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