HILL HOUSE, AND STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED

HILL HOUSE, AND STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187162
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: HILL HOUSE, AND STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED
Statutory Address:: HILL HOUSE, AND STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED, HIGH STREET

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Date:: 2002-10-18
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1187162
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1987
List Entry Name:: HILL HOUSE, AND STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED
Statutory Address 1:: HILL HOUSE, AND STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED, 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:: HILL HOUSE, AND STEPS AND RAILINGS ATTACHED, 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 78597 43027

Details

STAPLEHURST HIGH STREET TQ 7843 (East side)

5/123 Hill House (formerly listed as Staplehurst Post Office), and steps and railings attached

GV II

House, formerly house and post-office. Early/mid C18, possibly with earlier core, and with C19 alterations. Buffish-red brick in header bond, with red brick quoins and dressings. Chequered red and grey brick to left gable end. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys, attic and cellar. Chamfered brick plinth. Plat band, broken over door and towards each gable end. Moulded wooden eaves cornice. Right end window bay slightly recessed, with deeper cornice soffit. Roof hipped to left with gablet, half-hipped to right, with moulded strip to soffit of half hip . Multiple brick stack towards right end and rear stack to left. Hipped and corniced dormer to left hip. Irregular fenestration of six 2-pane sashes in open boxes; 5 with splayed rubbed brick voussoirs, and sixth, to right recess, with segmental head. Similar windows to ground floor. Door of 6 fielded panels with flat floating hood under third window from left. 4 stone steps, on brick base and with decorative iron balustrade, rising alongside the house to front door. Rear wing to left with chequered red and grey brick ground floor, tile-hung first floor and plain tile roof. Interior not inspected.

Listing NGR: TQ7860043042

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Legacy System number:: 174589
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.