Livesey Cottage

Livesey Cottage, Livesey Street, Teston, ME18 5AY

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262927
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1987
List Entry Name:: Livesey Cottage
Statutory Address:: Livesey Cottage, Livesey Street, Teston, ME18 5AY

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262927
Date first listed:: 26-Feb-1987
Date of most recent amendment:: 25-Jul-1988
List Entry Name:: Livesey Cottage
Statutory Address 1:: Livesey Cottage, Livesey Street, Teston, ME18 5AY

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: Livesey Cottage, Livesey Street, Teston, ME18 5AY

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Teston
National Grid Reference:: TQ 70213 54308

Details

TQ 75 SW 2/252

TESTON LIVESEY STREET (west side) Livesey Cottage

GV II House. First half C17 with alterations in C19. 1937-38 and 1960-61. Timber-framed with stone plinth to gable end. Brick cladding to ground floor, render and weatherboard to first floor, plain tile roofs. Two cell lobby entry plan.

Development: this house began in C17 as a two cell lobby entry timber-framed house and this structure survives basically complete apart from the framing to the ground floor front wall. In C19 it was divided into two cottages with two doors to the front elevation. The rear was extended with paired hipped roof wings but the C17 timber-framed rear wall survives. In 1937-38 the building was returned to one occupation and the lobby entry re-instated. All the features on the front elevation date from this period. An additional single storey room was added on the north in 1960-61 but this is not of special interest.

Elevation: two storeys. Red and grey brick in Flemish bond to ground floor, rendered above. Irregular fenestration of five casements, four two-light multi-pane casements in pairs towards each end and central two-light casement. Ribbed door in small central gabled brick porch. Half-hipped roof with gablet to left. Central multiple brick ridge stack and projecting stack to right gable end.

Rear elevation has four windows, one three-light casement and two small paned sliding sashes below, smaller sliding sashes above, some may be C19.

Interior: exposed framing of fairly substantial nature in both ground floor rooms and especially upstairs, some carpenters' marks. Inglenook fireplace to ground floor left room with large bressumer beam and 1938 infill fireplace. Right room had blocked inglenook back to back with other and 1938 fireplace in gable wall. Modern stair but position of original stair evident. Diagonal bracing and jowelled posts visible on stair.

Roof: C17 structure complete apart from slight alteration where the rear wings have been added. Principal rafter roof with queen struts. Rafters halved and pegged at apex, no ridge pieces.GV

Listing NGR: TQ7021354308

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

Legacy System number:: 433761
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.