Arden's House
ARDEN'S HOUSE, 80, ABBEY STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1186199
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Arden's House
- Statutory Address:
- ARDEN'S HOUSE, 80, ABBEY STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1186199
- Date first listed:
- 29-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- Arden's House
- Statutory Address 1:
- ARDEN'S HOUSE, 80, ABBEY 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:
- ARDEN'S HOUSE, 80, ABBEY STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Swale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Faversham
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 01828 61729
Details
ABBEY STREET 1. 1103 (East Side) ----------- No 80 (Arden's House) TR 0161 NE 1/88 29.7.50. II* GV
2. This building was the Guest house of Faversham Abbey and adjoins the outer gatehouse, which had an arch across what is now Abbey Street. It is built in 2 sections. The back section, which is only of 2 storeys and 1 window, is of stone rubble, presumably medieval, with a slate roof. The main part faces South. This is a timber-framed building, probably C15, both higher and of wider elevation than the back section. 3 storeys. 4 windows. Faced with plaster but with close-studding exposed on 1st floor. Tiled roof. It is divided into 2 portions. The west portion is studded and overhangs on a bressummer on the 1st and 2nd floors on both its South and West fronts. The East portion is all flush. Casement windows. Small porch with hipped tiled roof in the centre, but its doorway now blocked up. To the East of porch modern wooden boarded door. On North wall of this building, where it extends beyond the back section, is a massive brick chimney breast now truncated. Photograph in NMR. The house was the scene of the famous murder of Thomas Ardene in 1550, which was depicted in the play "Arden of Faversham" of 1592, written by Lillo and sometimes attributed by local patriotism to Shakespeare. AM.
No 80 and 81 and Wall enclosing garden behind No 8O form a group.
Listing NGR: TR0183061723
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175844
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Lillo, , Arden of Faversham, (1592)
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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