NO 4, PETER JONES OPTICIANS, AND PREMISES TO REAR

NO 4, PETER JONES OPTICIANS, AND PREMISES TO REAR, 4, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187139
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: NO 4, PETER JONES OPTICIANS, AND PREMISES TO REAR
Statutory Address:: NO 4, PETER JONES OPTICIANS, AND PREMISES TO REAR, 4, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187139
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: NO 4, PETER JONES OPTICIANS, AND PREMISES TO REAR
Statutory Address 1:: NO 4, PETER JONES OPTICIANS, AND PREMISES TO REAR, 4, HIGH STREET

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:: NO 4, PETER JONES OPTICIANS, AND PREMISES TO REAR, 4, HIGH STREET

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

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Staplehurst
National Grid Reference:: TQ 78594 43000

Details

STAPLEHURST HIGH STREET TQ 7843 & TQ 74 SE (East side)

3/121 & 5/121 No. 4 (also known as 4 Church Hill Cottages), Peter Jones Opticians, and premises to rear.

GV II

House, with shop and offices. Late C16 or early C17, with C18 wing, mid C19 facade, and later alterations. Ground floor red brick in Flemish bond, first floor tile-hung. Plain tile roof. 3 timber- framed bays. 2 storeys, attic and cellars. Formerly jettied at least to rear to left. Gabled. Red and grey brick ridge stack towards left end, slender gable-end stack to right and rear stack to right. 2 gabled dormers with 2-light casements. Irregular fenestration of 3 sashes; two 4-pane towards left end and one 16- pane towards right end. Cambered head to right ground-floor window. Half-glazed door, with cambered head, up 1 step towards left end to Peter Jones, and half-glazed door up 2 steps towards centre, to No. 4. Two-storey single-bay C18 rear wing to left, with red and grey brick ground floor, tile-hung first floor, hipped plain-tile roof, projecting gable-end stack, 16-pane rear gable end sash, and door to left side. Shorter 2-storey rear wing towards centre, with 2-storey lean-to in same materials to its long right side; ground floor red and grey brick in English bond, first floor weatherboarded, half- hipped plain tile roof. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing to first floor, with gunstock-jowled posts, arch braces, and shutter groove. Exposed former rear jetty.

Listing NGR: TQ7862443488

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Legacy System number:: 174587
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.