Well Cottage
WELL COTTAGE, ST MARY'S ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231597
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Well Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- WELL COTTAGE, ST MARY'S ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1231597
- Date first listed:
- 23-Apr-1985
- List Entry Name:
- Well Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- WELL COTTAGE, ST MARY'S ROAD
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:
- WELL COTTAGE, ST MARY'S ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- St. Mary in the Marsh
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 07077 26833
Details
TR 071 268 ST MARY IN THE MARSH ST MARY'S ROAD (west side)
7/109 Well Cottage
II
House, (said to have been a Poor House), formerly cottages, now house. Late C16 or early C17 with C19 additions. Painted brick with strip of tile hanging beneath eaves. Plain tile roof, formerly thatched. 1½ storeys. Hipped roof. Red and grey brick ridge stack towards left end and rear stack towards right end. 4 hipped dormers. Irregular ground floor fenestration of 6 leaded windows; three 2-light casements, 2 fixed lights and one rect- angular bay with hipped tiled roof. Ribbed door below and slightly to left of left stack, under open wood porch. C19 lean-to to right with leaded casement. C20 rear additions. Interior: 8 timber framed bays, including stack bay; that to right end possibly added, rest in 3 rooms of 2 bays with stack between left and central rooms. Lateral stack to right room with inglenook, possibly added in C18. Traces of small stack within right end room. Exposed beams. Roof has dropped tie-beam with queen-struts to collar. Central truss has curved passing braces between dropped tie-beam and queen-struts, trenched past the interrupted tie-beam.
Listing NGR: TR0707726833
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 175569
- 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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