Hunter's Moon

HUNTER'S MOON, HIGH STREET

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Overview

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1261579
Date first listed:
29-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:
Hunter's Moon
Statutory Address:
HUNTER'S MOON, HIGH STREET

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1261579
Date first listed:
29-Dec-1966
List Entry Name:
Hunter's Moon
Statutory Address 1:
HUNTER'S MOON, HIGH 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
HUNTER'S MOON, HIGH STREET

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 17701 44192

Details

TR 1644-1744
8/42



ELHAM
HIGH STREET (west side)
Hunter's Moon


29.12.66

GV
II
Formerly house pair, now house. Late C17 or C18, with later alterations. Probably timber framed. Front elevation partly painted flint, partly painted brick and partly rendered, with two exposed (subsidiary?) full- height posts. Plain tile roof. Two bays and central stack bay. Two storeys. Hipped roof, with gablet to left. Brick ridge stack towards centre. Irregular fenestration of three windows; one three-light casement to left and two two-light horizontally-sliding sashes to right. Ground floor has multipane former shop window to left of centre and two, two- light casements with segmental heads to right. Boarded door towards left end. Blocked doorway under stack. Weatherboarded lean-to with rear stack to each gable end. Rear lean-to. Interior: chamfered axial
beam and chamfered joists to each room on ground floor. Window staircase with shaped finial to landing newel post, between stack and former entrance lobby. Broad plank door. Steep C18 or C19 staircase against rear wall towards stack. Staggered butt purlin roof in five short bay-lengths. Formerly known as Hunter's Moon Tea Shop.

Listing NGR: TR1770244194

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
435329
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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