Bishops
BISHOPS, AVERY LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250689
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bishops
- Statutory Address:
- BISHOPS, AVERY LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250689
- Date first listed:
- 25-Jul-1952
- List Entry Name:
- Bishops
- Statutory Address 1:
- BISHOPS, AVERY LANE
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:
- BISHOPS, AVERY LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Otham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 80065 52642
Details
AVERY LANE TQ 75 SE OTHAM (North Side) 3/215 Bishops 25.7.52 II
House. C15 or early C16, with C19 additions. Timber framed with plaster infilling. Plain tile roof. Wealden, of 2 unequal-length hall bays and storeyed end bays. 2 storeys and attic. Broadly-spaced studding. Ogee tension braces to right and left end bays. Right and left end bays jettied, jetties returning on plain dragon-posts. Inserted hall floor formerly jettied; jetty removed from left hall bay in early C20 and underbuilt to right. Arch-braced flying wall-plate. Steeply-pitched hipped roof with gablets. Multiple brick ridge stack in front slope of roof, to left hall bay. Rear stack to left and projecting brick stack to right gable end. 2 gabled dormers. Irregular fenestration of 3 leaded windows; one canted 6-light mullioned and transomed oriel window on central carved and shaped bracket to left end bay, one to right hall bay, and one 4-light casement to right end bay. One 3-light diamond mullion ground-floor window to left end bay. Boarded door in hollow-chamfered 4-centred arched architrave to left end of hall. Timber-framed rear return wing to left. Late C19 timber-framed rear wing to centre, with 2 gables to its long right side. Interior not inspected, but said to contain brattished crown post.
Listing NGR: TQ8006552642
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433145
- 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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