Rose Cottage and Stockyard Attached
ROSE COTTAGE AND STOCKYARD ATTACHED, VANITY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250370
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rose Cottage and Stockyard Attached
- Statutory Address:
- ROSE COTTAGE AND STOCKYARD ATTACHED, VANITY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250370
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Rose Cottage and Stockyard Attached
- Statutory Address 1:
- ROSE COTTAGE AND STOCKYARD ATTACHED, VANITY 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:
- ROSE COTTAGE AND STOCKYARD ATTACHED, VANITY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Linton
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 74870 50124
Details
VANITY LANE TQ 75 SW LINTON (West Side) 2/163 Rose Cottage and former stockyard attached GV II Stockman's cottage and planned stockyard. Early-to-mid-C19. Cottage, south end of west range, ground floor of feeding rooms, and buildings to south side of yard red brick in Flemish bond. Rest open to yard on ground floor, first floor timber framed, partly tile-hung, partly asbestos-clad. Outer walls red brick, with stone lining. Plain tile roof. Built into slope to north and west. Courtyard, with south side open at east and west ends. Former stockman's cottage at south end of east range. Feed-mixing rooms to north-west and north-east corners, and further rooms to south end of west range. Animals stalled in remainder of north, west and east ranges, with backs to yard. Food distributed from tramline trolley. North, west and east ranges 2 storeys. Ground floor open except to corners and ends, with wooden posts on padstones and hinged for doors; 10 bays to north range, 7 to west. Plain bargeboards and moulded pendants to south gable ends. Irregular fenestration of 2-light leaded metal casements under eaves; 6 to north range, 4 each to east and west ranges. 3 first-floor loading doors to north and one towards centre of west range, roughly flanked by the windows, and with further doors opposite in the rear walls. Segmental-headed doorways to mixing rooms, and to south-west rooms. South range: single storey. Taller, wider central section. Bargeboards and pendants to all 4 gable ends. 2-light casement and 2 stable doors to central section. Flanking sections formerly of 2 open bays each. Stockman's cottage (Rose Cottage): south gable end stack. Irregular fenestration of 3 recessed casements with segmental heads. Boarded door with flanking windows to south end of east side. Formerly part of Maytum Farm (qv). Included for group value.
Listing NGR: TQ7487250170
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432687
- 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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