Mersham Stores, Post Office and Hollyhock Cottage
Hollyhock Cottage, 9, The Street, Mersham, Ashford, TN25 6NA
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234067
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Mersham Stores, Post Office and Hollyhock Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- Hollyhock Cottage, 9, The Street, Mersham, Ashford, TN25 6NA
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1234067
- Date first listed:
- 16-Feb-1989
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 15-Mar-1996
- List Entry Name:
- Mersham Stores, Post Office and Hollyhock Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- Hollyhock Cottage, 9, The Street, Mersham, Ashford, TN25 6NA
- Statutory Address 2:
- Mersham Stores and Post Office, 8, The Street, Mersham, Ashford, TN25 6NA
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:
- Hollyhock Cottage, 9, The Street, Mersham, Ashford, TN25 6NA
- Statutory Address:
- Mersham Stores and Post Office, 8, The Street, Mersham, Ashford, TN25 6NA
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Ashford (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Mersham
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 05249 39769
Details
This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 November 2025 to amend the name and address and reformat the text to current standards
TR 03 NE
7/163
MERSHAM
THE STREET (west side)
No 8 Mersham Stores and Post Office, and No 9 Hollyhock Cottage
(Formerly listed as Numbers 8 and 9, Woods Stores, Post Office and Hollyhock Cottage)
16.2.89
II
House, subdivided with later shop including post office. C17 or earlier building extended to the front of No 8 in early to mid C19. Timberframed, rendered and extended with rendered brick. Plain tiled roof. Two storey timberframed wing to rear with stacks to left and right and one C20 window and doorcase with flat hood on brackets. To the right the early to mid C19 extension projects forward with hipped tiled roof and three windows. Central 16 pane sash flanked by sashes with marginal glazing. C19 shopfront with deep fascia, pilasters, two three-light shop windows to Woods Stores divided by central half-glazed double door and similar shop window to PO to right. Return elevations of red and blue brick on ragstone base, with hipped rear wings. Ground floor has exposed floor joists and axial beams which are C 17 or earlier.
Listing NGR: TR0524939769
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 409681
- 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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