161 AND 163, HIGH STREET
161 AND 163, HIGH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243182
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 161 AND 163, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 161 AND 163, HIGH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1243182
- Date first listed:
- 22-Aug-1986
- List Entry Name:
- 161 AND 163, HIGH STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 161 AND 163, HIGH STREET
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:
- 161 AND 163, HIGH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Swale (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Queenborough
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 91108 72202
Details
HIGH STREET 5282 Queenborough TQ 97 SW 11/56 Nos 161 and 163 II GV
Cottage pair, No 161 later shop and cottage. Early C19 altered mid C19. Weather- boarded over stud framing with roof partly clay peg tiles and part renewed with asbestos slates and central brick chimneystack: 2 storeys and attics. 2 windows with penticed outshot to No 163 and probably mid C19 gable to rear of No 161. Front has 2 flat roofed dormers, one with casement and one with mid C19 sash with verticals only. No. 161 has 1st floor mid C19 sash with vertical glazing bars and horns, set in original moulded architrave and mid to late C19 shopfront with wide sloping fascia under hood and brackets. Right hand doorcase, door replaced, but with original wooden dentilled cornice above. No 161 has 1st floor original 16 pane sash in moulded archi- trave, ground floor original sash, though 4 of the lower glazing bars have been removed, and left hand doorcase with wooden dentilled cornice and 4 panelled door. Wooden plinth. Gable to rear has mainly mid C19 sashes. Internally both properties retain early C19 fireplaces, one with good cast iron duck's nest grate, one with panelled wooden surround. Wooden panelled partition walls and 4 panelled doors and some 2 panelled cupboard fronts with HL hinges. Winder staircases.
Listing NGR: TQ9110872202
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 446556
- 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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