Old Robus
OLD ROBUS, CANTERBURY ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242113
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Old Robus
- Statutory Address:
- OLD ROBUS, CANTERBURY ROAD
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1242113
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Old Robus
- Statutory Address 1:
- OLD ROBUS, CANTERBURY 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:
- OLD ROBUS, CANTERBURY 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:
- Lyminge
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 16201 41263
Details
TR 14 SE LYMINGE CANTERBURY ROAD (south-west side)
4/142 Old Robus 29.12.66 II
House. Early-to-mid C17, with late C19 or early C20 addition. Timber framed with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys and garret on stone plinth. Front elevation and right gable end close-studded, with intermittent mid-height rail to each storey. Continuous jetty, beam ends suggesting two timber-framed bays and short central-entry bay. Gabled roof. Eaves jettied on moulded bressumer to right gable end, with pierced and enriched pendant to front corner. Large projecting gable-end stack to right, on flint plinth with stone quoins, stack of red brick in English bond with tumbled shoulders, and two diagonally-set flues on rectangular brick plinth with moulded cornice. Irregular fenestration of 3 windows; one leaded three-light casement to left and one two-light to right, and central twenty-pane sash. Ribbed door towards centre, in rectangular moulded architrave, up three steps. Red and grey brick rear lean-to, on stone plinth. Two- storey late C19 or early C20 addition to right, projecting forwards slightly as cross-wing; ground floor painted brick, first floor painted pebbledash with straight flush framing, gabled plain tile roof, one six-pane first-floor sash. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TR1620141263
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441380
- 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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