The Old Vicarage
THE OLD VICARAGE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250400
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, CHURCH STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250400
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Old Vicarage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, CHURCH 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:
- THE OLD VICARAGE, CHURCH STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Loose
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 75687 52104
Details
CHURCH STREET TQ 7552 LOOSE (East Side) 6/170 The Old Vicarage 25.7.52 GV II Formerly vicarage, now house. 1657, with C18 and early C19 additions. Main range timber framed, clad with channelled render to first floor. part painted brick part render to ground floor. Plain tile roof. Symmetrical lobby entry plan, built at right-angles to street. 2 storeys and attics on stone plinth. Central multiple brick ridge stack. 2 scarcely jettied gabled eaves dormers spanning all but central section of front elevation, each with small 2-light leaded casement. Irregular fenestration of one 3-light leaded casement below each dormer. Central rendered porch with gable rising to eaves of main range, and with blocked doorway. Boarded door towards rear of left gable. C18 addition to rear to left; painted brick on stone plinth, with plat band, moulded wooden eaves cornice and hipped plain-tile roof. One 18-pane first-floor sash to left side (to road) and 2 horizontally-sliding sashes to ground floor. Early C19 addition infilling re-entrant angle to right; painted brick on stone plinth, with hipped slate roof. Two 12-pane sashes to right side with iron balconettes. Venetian shutters to ground floor windows. Doorway with moulded architrave in shallow rendered porch, towards junction with main range. Interior not inspected. Dated 1657 in parish records (R. Thornburgh; Exploring Loose Village, 1978).
Listing NGR: TQ7568752104
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432733
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Thornburgh, R, Exploring Loose Village, (1978)
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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