53, High Street
Old Oak Cottage, 53, High Street, Minster, CT12 4BT
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223819
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 53, High Street
- Statutory Address:
- Old Oak Cottage, 53, High Street, Minster, CT12 4BT
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1223819
- Date first listed:
- 07-Oct-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 53, High Street
- Statutory Address 1:
- Old Oak Cottage, 53, High Street, Minster, CT12 4BT
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:
- Old Oak Cottage, 53, High Street, Minster, CT12 4BT
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Thanet (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Minster
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 31064 64630
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 6 October 2025 to update the Name and Address and reformat the text to current standards
TR 3064-3164
5/27
MINSTER
HIGH STREET (East Side)
(Formerly listed as Old Oak Cottage Restaurant)
GV
II
House, now house and restaurant. C16 and late C17 and restored mid C20. Timber framed and clad with beaded weather boarding and applied timber with plaster infill on front elevation, and weather boarding to left return. Plain tiled roof. L-shaped plan, the present entrance front of two framed bays probably originally a return wing. Two storeys on plinth with bresummer fascia and moulded cornice to roof hipped to left (with return wing). Hipped dormer and stacks to rear left and right in front of ridge. Two three light-leaded mullioned casements with central single light on first floor and two three light mullioned casements on ground floor, that to left with sidelights. Half-glazed central door in moulded surround with enriched cornice and console brackets supporting segmental pediment enriched with strapwork and central cartouche with lion head.
Interior: clasped purlin roof, leaded mullioned lights with some coloured glass. Full frame visible.
The supposed hauntings at the house investigated by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (and the B.B.C.)!
Listing NGR: TR3106464630
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 419692
- 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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