The Quest
THE QUEST, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185519
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- The Quest
- Statutory Address:
- THE QUEST, WEST STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1185519
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 14-Dec-1984
- List Entry Name:
- The Quest
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE QUEST, WEST 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:
- THE QUEST, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Harrietsham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 86537 52766
Details
HARRIETSHAM WEST STREET TQ 85 SE (north side)
4/58 The Quest (formerly listed as Baldwins 26.4.68. and the Quest) GV II House, later house row, now house. C17, early C18, mid C18 and early C19, with mid C20 alterations. Timber-framed core, clad in red brick in Flemish bond with occasional grey headers in early C18. Right end quarter mid C18, chequered red and grey brick. Plain tile roof. Lobby entry house of four bays including stack bay. 2 storeys and cellar on brick plinth with 2 two-storey shouldered C19 or C20 buttresses, one slightly to left of centre and the other half-way between that and left end. 3 stretches of plat band; one in Flemish bond with ogee moulded base between the 2 buttresses, another similar to right of stack and one with plain edges in English bond to right quarter, returning round right gable end. Moulded wood eaves cornice. Hipped roof, with gablet to left end. Ridge slightly lower to right of stack. Small projecting stack to left end, multiple brick ridge stack towards centre and one to rear to right end. Irregular fenestration of 7 casements; on first floor one single-light, five 2-light and one 3-light. 5 ground floor windows, of which 3 have rubbed brick voussoirs, those of tripartite sash between buttresses having finely-fluted base. C20 panelled door in C20 brick porch to rear of left gable end. Door with fielded panels, 2 top lights and narrow rectangular fanlight to right side of left buttress. Blocked door to right side of right buttress and C20 ribbed door in rear lean-to to right with blocked door in right gable end of front range. Short C17 or early C18 timber framed rear wing and possibly C18 rear lean-to. Datestone IT to left of left end buttress. 1712 Interior: fragments of timber framing. Panel of plaster with repeated triangular pattern in pale blue and white in right ground-floor inglenook of central stack; probably C17. Small C18 panelled room to right end of ground floor with sunk beaded panels, moulded cornice, C18 doors, and panelled fireplace surround. First floor room above with plain sunk panels along one wall and similar cornice. C18 doors throughout house. C18 brick cellar beneath left end room.
Listing NGR: TQ8671252708
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173791
- 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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