Vale House
VALE HOUSE, OLD LOOSE HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250555
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Vale House
- Statutory Address:
- VALE HOUSE, OLD LOOSE HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250555
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Vale House
- Statutory Address 1:
- VALE HOUSE, OLD LOOSE HILL
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:
- VALE HOUSE, OLD LOOSE HILL
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 75895 52120
Details
OLD LOOSE HILL TQ 7552 LOOSE (East Side) 6/192 Vale House 25.7.52 GV II
House. Early-to-mid C18, possibly with earlier core, and with later alterations. Purplish-red brick in Flemish bond, with lighter red brick dressings. Gable end of left return wing possibly timber- framed, now rendered. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys, attic and basement. Chamfered brick plinth. Moulded and dentilled wooden eaves cornice, the moulding returning to right and left elevations. Hipped roof, hips returning. Rear stacks to left and right. 2 small gabled dormers with moulded cornices and 2-light casements. Regular 3-window front of two 16-pane and central 12-pane sashes in open boxes, with splayed rubbed brick voussoirs, in altered openings. Two 24-pane ground-floor sashes. Central half-glazed and panelled door with fanlight. Later porch on iron columns. Left return elevation: chequered red and grey brick with plat band. 2 first-floor windows, one blocked, one sash, and 3 ground-floor windows, one blocked. Short wing at right-angles to right, parallel to and adjoining rear wall of main range. Right return elevation: gable end of main range purplish-red brick, added right return wing red brick in Flemish bond, with plat band. Irregular fenestration of four 18-pane sashes. Interior not inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ7589552120
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432964
- 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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