The Dairy House
THE DAIRY HOUSE, KIRKDALE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250499
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Dairy House
- Statutory Address:
- THE DAIRY HOUSE, KIRKDALE
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- Date:
- 2001-01-06
- Reference:
- IOE01/03078/04
- Rights:
- © Dr Henry Teed. Source: Historic England Archive
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250499
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Dairy House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE DAIRY HOUSE, KIRKDALE
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 DAIRY HOUSE, KIRKDALE
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 75704 52187
Details
KIRKDALE TQ 7552 LOOSE (West Side) 6/185 The Dairy House GV II House, forge in early C19, beerhouse from 1850's, dairy 1920-55, now house. C16 or C17 with C18 alterations and early-to-mid C19 additions and facade. Timber-framed, clad with channelled render. Left gable end weatherboarded. Plain tile roof. One timber-framed bay of C16 or C17, with second, probably added in C18, to left. Early-to-mid C19 addition to left end, framed as short cross-wing. 2 storeys and garret. Brick plinth to left of door, stone plinth to right. Roof broadly hipped to left, with high ridge over left end bay. Main range half-hipped to right. Rear buff brick stack towards left end. Irregular fenestration of 3 sashes; one 16-pane sash to left bay, one to central bay, and one 12-pane sash set much lower towards right end, under former wall-plate. Boarded door to right of centre under plain-tile canopy. Rendered rear lean-to. Interior: chamfered cross-beam to right bay. C18 staircase between walls opposite front door, with ramped recessed panelling to left wall. Corner fireplace to central room. Marked on O.S. map as Almery Cottage.
Listing NGR: TQ7570452187
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432885
- 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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