Forge Cottages Forge House
FORGE COTTAGES, 12 AND 14, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209112
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottages Forge House
- Statutory Address:
- FORGE COTTAGES, 12 AND 14, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1209112
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 11-Mar-1994
- List Entry Name:
- Forge Cottages Forge House
- Statutory Address 1:
- FORGE COTTAGES, 12 AND 14, KING STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- FORGE HOUSE, 10, KING STREET
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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:
- FORGE COTTAGES, 12 AND 14, KING STREET
- Statutory Address:
- FORGE HOUSE, 10, KING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- West Malling
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 68042 57918
Details
WEST MALLING KING STREET TQ 6857 1156-0/3/101 Nos 10, 12, and 14 Forge House (10 & 12) Forge Cottage (14) (formerly listed as 01/08/52 KING STREET Nos 1, 2, 3)
GV II
The address shall be amended to read
TQ 6857 WEST MALLING KING STREET 1156-0/3/101 No 10, 12 and 14 Forge House (10) Forge Cottages (12 and 14) (formerly listed 01/08/52 as KING STREET Nos 1, 2, 3)
GV II
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WEST MALLING
TQ6857 KING STREET 1156-0/3/101 Nos.10, 12, AND 14 01/08/52 Forge House (10 & 12) Forge Cottage (14) (Formerly Listed as: KING STREET Nos.1,2,3)
GV II
Row of cottages, originally one house. C16 lobby entrance house refronted in C19. Timber-framed, plastered over with matchboard applied framing of crossed diagonals on cemented plinth. Old tiled roof half-hipped with off-central clustered cemented stack and end external brick stacks. 2 storeys and attics: 6 windows. Attic has gabled dormer with casement. 1st floor Windows are mainly C19 casements but there are 2 4-light mullioned and transomed oriels on brackets. Ground floor has one 16-pane sash to No 16. 2 C19 casements to No 14 and mullioned and transomed window and modern garage doors to No 10. No 10 has C20 6-panelled door, the top 2 panels glazed and No 14 has a plain door. Left side elevation weatherboarded. The rear elevation of No 10 is rendered and has a shingled lean-to with slate roof. No 10 has in the living room a large open fireplace with roll-moulded beam, a C16 spine beam with 2in chamfer and lamb's tongue stop and 3 iron rungs in the corner which may be the remains of a fixed ladder to the upper floor. 1st floor has C16 oak floor boards and internal diamond mullioned windows. Roof structure has collar beams and through purlins and wattle and daub is reported in the attic. C16 door. C18 pine panelling to 1st floor. The garage was formerly a forge and it retains kick boards for the horses. No 12 has a spine beam with 2in chamfer and lamb's tongue stops. C19 matchboard panelling. C18 winder staircase. Outside Nos 10-14 is a section of stone cobbles.
Listing NGR: TQ6803957918
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392413
- 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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