Monks Cottage
MONKS COTTAGE, CULLINGS HILL
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252281
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Monks Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- MONKS COTTAGE, CULLINGS HILL
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1252281
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Monks Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- MONKS COTTAGE, CULLINGS HILL
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:
- MONKS COTTAGE, CULLINGS HILL
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Elham
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 17616 43909
Details
TR 1643-1743 ELHAM CULLINGS HILL (South-West Side)
9/26 Monks Cottage
GV II
Shop and house, now house. C17 or early C18, with late C19 addition and C20 alterations. Ground floor painted brick, first floor rendered with applied studding. Plain tile roof. 2 storeys. Plat band. Part of post and wall-plate end visible to front left corner terminating about half way up present first floor, possibly relating to a non-extant building to left. Roof half-hipped to left, hipped to right with gablet. Right hip returns, with lower ridge. Red and grey brick ridge stack towards centre. Irregular fenestration of 3 paned windows; one two-light horizontally-sliding sash to each end and one six-paned single light towards centre. Bow window to left end of ground floor, ribbed garage doors to right, and ribbed door with flat hood on slender iron brackets under stack. Two-storey painted brick rear addition to right. Painted flint rear lean-to. Interior: chamfered axial beam and unchamfered joists of relatively small scantling to left ground-floor room. Brick fireplace, partly in English bond, with bressumer formed from a late C16 or C17 ovolo-moulded ceiling beam with comparatively elaborate chamfer-stops. Chamfered axial beam to right ground-floor room. Tie beam and wall- plate of relatively small scantling.
Listing NGR: TR1761643910
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 435259
- 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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