Little Upper Hill Street Cottage

LITTLE UPPER HILL STREET COTTAGE

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1241846
Date first listed:
17-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Little Upper Hill Street Cottage
Statutory Address:
LITTLE UPPER HILL STREET COTTAGE

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1241846
Date first listed:
17-Oct-1988
List Entry Name:
Little Upper Hill Street Cottage
Statutory Address 1:
LITTLE UPPER HILL STREET COTTAGE

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.

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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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
LITTLE UPPER HILL STREET COTTAGE

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Kent
District:
Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
Parish:
Elmsted
National Grid Reference:
TR 11655 45419

Details

TR 14 NW ELMSTEAD -

1/114 Little Upper Hill Street Cottage

II

Farmhouse. Late C16, with late C18 or early C19 alterations. Timber framed. Ground floor rendered, first floor weatherboarded (formerly tile-hung). Plain tile roof. Lobby-entry plan of 3 timber-framed bays. Fourth bay added to right in C17 or C18. Two storeys, on rendered plinth. Hipped roof. Brick stack towards right end of left end bay, and another to left end of added right bay. Irregular fenestration of 4 two-light casements. Ribbed door under left stack, half-glazed door under right stack. Interior: central and right bays form one room, with chamfered cross beam and chamfered joists. Mortices for four-light diamond-mullion window with shutter groove to right end of room. Tension braces to each floor of former right gable end. Added right bay has chamfered cross beam to right of stack, and axial joists. Left fireplace has wooden bressumer tenoned to rear wall- post and to a post towards front of house, infilled with apparently later brick jambs, and possibly part of a timber stack. Arch-braced tie-beam with unmorticed soffit immediately to right of stack has a stud and daub partition above it angled to right, away from stack. Brick fireplace with wooden bressumer to right stack.

Listing NGR: TR1165545419

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
441083
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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