Church Cottage
CHURCH COTTAGE, VICARAGE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241518
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, VICARAGE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1241518
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Church Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, VICARAGE LANE
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:
- CHURCH COTTAGE, VICARAGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elham
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 17739 43789
Details
TR 1643-1743 ELHAM VICARAGE LANE (north side)
9/89 Church Cottage
GV II
Probably special-purpose building associated with church Now house. Early C16 or, probably, earlier, with C17 and C19 alterations and additions. Timber framed. Left section clad with red brick, largely in Flemish bond. Right cross-wing red and grey brick in Flemish bond to front, but with slightly older-looking brickwork to rear. Rear wing modified header bond to left side, flint with red brick dressings to rear. Plain tile roof. C16 or earlier left section presently comprises one relatively short and narrow bay. Two-bay C17 cross-wing to right end, set back from front elevation and projecting to rear. C19 rear wing to left, infilling angle. 2 storeys. Left section has medieval cellar, underbuilt jetty to front and to left and right gable ends, and tops of front corner posts exposed. Plat band to brickwork, returning to left and right. Roof of left section hipped to left and right, with short ridge. Roof of right cross-wing hipped to front and rear, with gablet to front and with lower eaves and ridge than left section. Rear wing hipped to rear. Central rear stack to left section. Formerly projecting brick stack with ovolo-moulded plinth to flue, to right side of cross-wing. Irregular fenestration of 2 windows; one three-light casement to left section, and one twelve-pane sash in open box, with reeded architrave, to front gable end of cross-wing. Half-glazed door with segmental head to gable end of cross-wing. Weatherboarded late C19 lean-to with plain tile roof abutting left gable end of left section; formerly the parish bier-house. C19 flint lean-to with red and grey brick dressings and plain tile roof, to right side of cross-wing , with ribbed door with segmental head to front end. Brick in front elevation of left section dated DD169 (3/5). Interior: left section has two dragon beams, their inner ends only three joists apart. Broad close-set joists. Three stone corbels to cellar. Brick fireplace with bressumer to rear wall. Cross-wing has axial joists, and red brick fireplace in English bond, with wooden bressumer. Chamfered brick plinth and shoulders to rear of stack. House abuts the churchyard.
Listing NGR: TR1774143790
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440606
- 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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