Palm Cottage
PALM COTTAGE, WELL STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250679
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Palm Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PALM COTTAGE, WELL STREET
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250679
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Palm Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PALM COTTAGE, WELL 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:
- PALM 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 75434 51936
Details
WELL STREET TQ 75 SE LOOSE (East Side) 3/212 Palm Cottage 23.5.67 GV II
House, formerly cottages, now house. C16, with later alterations. Timber-framed. Ground floor underbuilt in stone, first floor rendered, with exposed studs and principal posts. Left gable end weatherboarded. 4 timber-framed bays, built at right-angles to road. 2 storeys. South elevation: higher midrail to second bay from left (west). Rear stack to left and projecting stone stack with brick flue to right gable end. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements; one 2-light to left end bay and another to second bay from left, and one shallow C16 3-light oriel window on shaped brackets to each of remaining bays, with diamond mullions and subsidiary mullions. Half-glazed door to third bay from left and ribbed door with top light to left end. Rendered and weatherboarded rear lean-to to left. Interior: exposed framing. Unjowled principal post on first floor to south, within one foot of west gable end. Chamfered stone fireplace to east gable end. Lightly- chamfered stone fireplace, probably C18, to rear of left end bay, projecting into lean-to. 3 plain crown-posts, to left end of roof, each with only one foot brace and one head brace. Clasped purlins, possibly C18, to rest of roof. Board doors.
Listing NGR: TQ7543451936
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433138
- 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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