FORMER OASTHOUSE ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF THE WOOL HOUSE AND WOOL HOUSE COTTAGE

FORMER OASTHOUSE ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF THE WOOL HOUSE AND WOOL HOUSE COTTAGE, HIGH BANKS

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1250658
Date first listed:: 25-Jun-1967
List Entry Name:: FORMER OASTHOUSE ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF THE WOOL HOUSE AND WOOL HOUSE COTTAGE
Statutory Address:: FORMER OASTHOUSE ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF THE WOOL HOUSE AND WOOL HOUSE COTTAGE, HIGH BANKS

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Date:: 2001-01-07
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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1250658
Date first listed:: 25-Jun-1967
Date of most recent amendment:: 26-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: FORMER OASTHOUSE ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF THE WOOL HOUSE AND WOOL HOUSE COTTAGE
Statutory Address 1:: FORMER OASTHOUSE ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF THE WOOL HOUSE AND WOOL HOUSE COTTAGE, HIGH BANKS
Statutory Address 2:: FORMER OASTHOUSE ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF THE WOOL HOUSE AND WOOL HOUSE COTTAGE, WELL STREET

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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:: FORMER OASTHOUSE ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF THE WOOL HOUSE AND WOOL HOUSE COTTAGE, HIGH BANKS
Statutory Address:: FORMER OASTHOUSE ABOUT 20 METRES SOUTH SOUTH EAST OF THE WOOL HOUSE AND WOOL HOUSE COTTAGE, WELL 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 75599 52057

Details

WELL STREET TQ 7552 LOOSE (East Side) 6/209 Former Oasthouse about 20 metres south-south-east of The Wool House and 25.5.67 Wool House Cottage (formerly listed as building in the grounds GV of The Old Wool House) II

Oasthouse, formerly private museum, now outbuilding. Late C18 or early C19, altered in 1920s. Small blocks of coursed galleted stone, with tooled stone dressings. Corrugated iron roof. Rectangular stowage or barn oast approximately 70' long and 30' wide, partly built in to side of hill. 3 storeys. Ground floor partly underground at south-east (left) end. Mono-pitch roof. Long- and-short tooled stone quoins. Irregular fenestration of 3 evenly-spaced latticed 6-light mullioned and transomed windows to second floor. Former loading doorway to each floor at north-west (right) end, separated only by stone lintels; upper doorways now containing latticed lights. Small 3-light wooden diamond mullion window to right end of ground floor. Interior: most of ground floor apparently occupied by enclosed stone hearths. Building formerly had 2 further weatherboarded storeys, and was part of an usually large complex of similar buildings. Included for group value. (R. Thornburgh, Exploring Loose Village, 1978).

Listing NGR: TQ7559952057

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Legacy System:: LBS

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Thornburgh, R , Exploring Loose Village, (1978)

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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.