DOUGLAS ALMSHOUSES (SOUTH ROW)

DOUGLAS ALMSHOUSES (SOUTH ROW), FAVERSHAM ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186175
Date first listed:: 07-May-1971
List Entry Name:: DOUGLAS ALMSHOUSES (SOUTH ROW)
Statutory Address:: DOUGLAS ALMSHOUSES (SOUTH ROW), FAVERSHAM ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1186175
Date first listed:: 07-May-1971
List Entry Name:: DOUGLAS ALMSHOUSES (SOUTH ROW)
Statutory Address 1:: DOUGLAS ALMSHOUSES (SOUTH ROW), FAVERSHAM ROAD

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: DOUGLAS ALMSHOUSES (SOUTH ROW), FAVERSHAM ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Lenham
National Grid Reference:: TQ 89849 52237

Details

LENHAM FAVERSHAM ROAD TQ 8952 (west side)

10/150 Douglas Almshouses 7.5.71. (south Row) GV II Almshouses. Mid C19. Red brick, largely in header bond, with plain tile roof. Small area of banded plain and fishscale tile- hanging on first floor, to right of centre. At right-angles to road, forming south side of an unenclosed courtyard. 2 storeys. Projecting eaves with flat soffits. Brick ridge stack to each end of row. Irregular fenestration of 11 windows; seven 2-light horizontally-sliding sashes, three single-light casements and one 2-light casement. Ground-floor windows with segmental heads. 2 half-glazed doors with segmental head to communal staircases, one at left end and one off-centre to right beneath tile-hanging, with one blocked door between them and another towards right end. Mid-to-late C19 block parallel to road at east end. Interiors not inspected. See also Faversham Road, Douglas Almshouses, north row.

Listing NGR: TQ8984852237

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Legacy System number:: 173885
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.