Avicia Cottage
AVICIA COTTAGE, 36, KING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218719
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Avicia Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- AVICIA COTTAGE, 36, KING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1218719
- Date first listed:
- 30-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- Avicia Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- AVICIA COTTAGE, 36, KING 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:
- AVICIA COTTAGE, 36, 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 68012 57854
Details
WEST MALLING
TQ6857 KING STREET 1156-0/3/108 No.36 Avicia Cottage
GV II
Cottage. Late medieval, refronted and underbuilt in early C19 and refenestrated in C20. Timber-framed building the exterior roughcast with old tiled roof. Passageway clad in weatherboarding. 2 storeys 3 windows. 1st floor has 3 C20 casements, some with leaded lights. Ground floor has 3 C20 casements. Doorcase with flat hood and brackets and plank door. Plinth. Rear elevation has projecting gable with exposed tension braces. Mullioned window and early C19 fixed casement.
Interior reported to have fine moulded crownpost with beam moulding. An unusual plate beam fronts the road (covered externally) showing concave moulding and decoration over 2ft in width. The solar supporting beam internally shows castellated and decorative mouldings. The inglenook fireplace, 9ft in width, is flanked by stone mouldings, possibly ecclesiastical in origin. The inglenook comprised of ashlar and 2in bricks is probably early C16, inserted during the Tudor modernization when the ceilings were inserted. Original well at rear. (Crozier P: Survey of buildings in West Malling: ITEM 16).
Listing NGR: TQ6800957856
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392420
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crozier, P, Survey of Buildings in West Malling, ()
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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