The Limes
THE LIMES, OTHAM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250856
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address:
- THE LIMES, OTHAM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1250856
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- The Limes
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE LIMES, OTHAM 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:
- THE LIMES, OTHAM STREET
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 79746 53210
Details
OTHAM STREET TQ 75 SE OTHAM (East Side) The Limes 3/226 23.5.67 GV II House. Mid C17, with early C19 facade and alterations. Timber framed. Channelled render to facade. Plain tile roof. Semi lobby-entry plan, with narrow central corridor (possibly formed in C19)behind stack, and one room to each side. 2 storeys and attics on rendered plinth. Plain stone-coped parapet. Half-hipped roof. Rendered ridge stack to left of centre (to right end of left room). Two C19 projecting brick gable end stacks to right. 2 flat-roofed dormers. Regular 3-window front of recessed 16-pane sashes. Rendered flat-roofed porch under stack with engaged Doric columns and panelled door with narrow rectangular fanlight. House flanked on each side by single-storey rendered wall containing round-headed doorway. Narrow C19 parallel rear range, and short rear wing to right. Single- storey early C20 addition with three-quarters hipped roof, to left gable end, set back from flanking wall. Interior: ovolo-moulded axial beam with soffit panel to left ground-floor room. Fireplace to same room with chamfered wooden bressumer and renewed jambs. Tooled and chamfered stone jamb with vase stop re-used in later cellar stairs. C19 grate to right ground-floor room, with irises to tiles and with consoled marble shelf. C19 panelled doors. Attic stairs behind stack. Staggered butt-purlin roof.
Listing NGR: TQ7974653210
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433349
- 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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