Rigdens
RIGDENS, 4, THE SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260571
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- List Entry Name:
- Rigdens
- Statutory Address:
- RIGDENS, 4, THE SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1260571
- Date first listed:
- 29-Dec-1966
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 17-Oct-1988
- List Entry Name:
- Rigdens
- Statutory Address 1:
- RIGDENS, 4, THE SQUARE
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:
- RIGDENS, 4, THE SQUARE
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 17732 43873
Details
TR 1643-1743 ELHAM THE SQUARE (east side)
9/74 No. 4 (Rigdens) (formerly listed 29.12.66 with Crown House, No.2 and No.3)
GV II
House. C18. Red brick in Flemish bond. Plain tile roof. Central- entry plan. 2 storeys and cellar. Chamfered brick plinth on stone base. Plat band. Boxed eaves. Gabled roof. Red brick gable-end stacks. Regular 3-window front of two sixteen-pane sashes and central twelve- pane sash, in open boxes, and with segmental heads. Similar windows to ground floor. Recessed central door of six sunk panels, with rectangular three-light fanlight. Doorcase with reeded pilasters and frieze, and flat hood. Single-storey addition to left, set back from front elevation, of flint with brick dressings, with hipped lean-to roof, and sixteen-pane sash with segmental head. Two conjoined two storey brick rear additions, that to right shorter, with plain tile roof hipped to rear, that to left with roof hipped to left and right. Left addition has sixteen-pane ground-floor sash with segmental head, and boarded door, also with segmental head. Interior: only partly inspected. Staircase with moulded balusters and scrolled cheeks. Rendered fireplace with wooden bressumer to left ground-floor room. Chamfered beams to cellar. Ground-floor window of rear left addition has reeded inner architrave and panelled shutters.
Listing NGR: TR1773643868
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 440311
- 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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