Latchmere House
LATCHMERE HOUSE, 26, WATLING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259865
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Latchmere House
- Statutory Address:
- LATCHMERE HOUSE, 26, WATLING STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1259865
- Date first listed:
- 03-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Latchmere House
- Statutory Address 1:
- LATCHMERE HOUSE, 26, WATLING 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:
- LATCHMERE HOUSE, 26, WATLING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Canterbury (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 14813 57623
Details
1. 944 WATLING STREET (South West Side)
No 26 (Latchmere House) TR 1457 NE 4/222A 3.5.67.
II GV
2. Built in 1620 but refronted in early C19. 3 storeys stuccoed with a rusticated base. Parapet. 5 sashes set in moulded architraved with stone cills and glazing bars intact. 2 stringcourses, 1st floor has later balconettes. Round-headed doorcases with 6 fielded panelled doors. 2 footscrapers. Plinth. Right side doorcase has glazing bars intact. The interior is timber-framed and has traces of C17 painted floral and scroll decorations with the initials Q M W and M W in a cupboard on the 1st floor. This floor has a room having an early C19 bow and a moulded cornice with floral decoration. There is an early Cl9 nantelpieae with dentils, fluted pilasters and heads of Alexander the Great set in a marble surround and a fine early C19 cast iron firegrate. Panelled doors. The cellar has some reused Roman bricks and Mediaeval masonry.
Nos 24 to 27 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: TR1481157612
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 443719
- 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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