Shilston House
SHILSTON HOUSE, NORTH LYMINGE LANE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260108
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Shilston House
- Statutory Address:
- SHILSTON HOUSE, NORTH LYMINGE LANE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260108
- Date first listed:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Shilston House
- Statutory Address 1:
- SHILSTON HOUSE, NORTH LYMINGE 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:
- SHILSTON HOUSE, NORTH LYMINGE LANE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Folkestone and Hythe (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lyminge
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 16482 41157
Details
TR 14 SE LYMINGE NORTH LYMINGE LANE (east side) North Lyminge
4/157 Shilston House
II
House. C15, with C16 or C17 alterations, and mid C18 facade. Timber framed. Front elevation chequered red and grey brick. Right gable end rendered, rear elevation brick. Plain tile roof. Open hall of two timber-framed bays, and storeyed end bay to right. Storeyed left end bay non-extant. Probably a Wealden, with hall facade built out. 2 storeys. Plat band. Steeply-pitched hipped roof. Ridge stack towards left end, (to right end of left hall bay), and projecting gable-end stack to right. Irregular fenestration of three C19 tripartite sashes in open boxes. Half-glazed double doors towards centre. Lean-to to left gable end. Scratch dates of 1750, with various initials, to bricks surrounding door. Interior: vestiges of moulded right end-of-hall beam. Boxed axial beam to right ground-floor room. Doubly-hollow- chamfered central-truss tie-beam, with evidence for virtually solid- spandrel arch braces. Moulded octagonal crown post. Plain crown post with foot braces to right end of hall, with vertical queen struts to rafters and mortices for stave partition under collar. Evidence for inner hall wall-plate towards front of house. Chamfered axial beam and bevelled joists to C16 or C17 inserted floor in right hall bay. Bevelled axial joists to left hall bay. Brick fireplace with wooden bressumer to right side of stack.
Listing NGR: TR1648241157
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 441640
- 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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