1-3, Old Loose Hill

1-3, Old Loose Hill, Loose, Maidstone, ME15 0BH

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1250598
Date first listed:
23-May-1967
List Entry Name:
1-3, Old Loose Hill
Statutory Address:
1-3, Old Loose Hill, Loose, Maidstone, ME15 0BH
Taken 06/06/2023 from the North. There is a plaque to the left on the wall , 1,2,3 Old Loose Hill
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Date:
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1250598
Date first listed:
23-May-1967
Date of most recent amendment:
26-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:
1-3, Old Loose Hill
Statutory Address 1:
1-3, Old Loose Hill, Loose, Maidstone, ME15 0BH

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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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
1-3, Old Loose Hill, Loose, Maidstone, ME15 0BH

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 75842 52182

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 13 June 2023 to update the name and address and to reformat the text to current standards

TQ 7552
6/198

LOOSE
OLD LOOSE HILL (west side)
Nos. 1- 3

(formerly listed as Nos. 1 - 3 (The Change), previously listed as Old Loose Hill Cottages)

23.5.67

GV
II
House, possibly an inn, now house row. C17, with earlier core and later alterations. Timber framed. Front elevation rendered. Right gable end pebbledashed towards base, weatherboarded above. Plain tile roof. Built at right-angles to road, on high bank. Main range of about two timber-framed bays. Cross-wing to left (west) end, projecting to rear. Short rear wing added to right, having crosswing or further addition at right-angles, parallel to main range and with gable end projecting slightly towards road. Main range and right addition two storeys. Left wing and rear range two storeys and garret, with higher eaves and ridge. High ragstone retaining wall merges with cellar walls and plinth of right gable end. Roof of main range hipped to right, roof of left wing hipped to front. Multiple brick ridge stack to left end of main range. Irregular fenestration of four casements; one three-light to left wing and two two-light and one three-light to main range. Ribbed door to No. 2 towards centre under plain-tile pentice. Rear doors to Nos. 1 and 3. Short single-storey addition projecting forwards from left end of main range.

Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing to main range. Clasped purlin roof with re-used smoke-blackened rafters. Stone fireplace.


Listing NGR: TQ7584252182

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Legacy System number:
433032
Legacy System:
LBS

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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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