Belks White Cottage
BELKS, OTHAM STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263042
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Belks White Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- BELKS, OTHAM STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263042
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Belks White Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- BELKS, OTHAM STREET
- Statutory Address 2:
- WHITE COTTAGE, OTHAM 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:
- BELKS, OTHAM STREET
- Statutory Address:
- WHITE COTTAGE, OTHAM STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Otham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 79715 53246
Details
OTHAM STREET TQ 75 SE OTHAM (West Side) 3/230 Belks GV II
Farmhouse, now house. Late C14 or early C15 with mid C16 alterations, restored in late C20. Timber framed, with rendered infilling. Plain tile roof. Open hall of 2 unequal-length timber-framed bays, and storeyed end bays. 2 storeys, on stone plinth. Gabled end jetties underbuilt. Exposed principal posts and midrails. Peg-holes suggest broadly-spaced close- studding. Tension braces to narrower left hall bay. Steeply-pitched hipped roof with gablets. Gable end stack to left and brick ridge stack to right end of left hall bay. Irregular fenestration of 4 windows; one 2- light casement to each end bay, small single light over door, and late C20 rectangular timber-framed first-floor bay window with gable, to right hall bay. Blocked 6-light diamond mullion window to rear wall of right hall bay. Boarded door set within durns to left end of left hall bay. Stone lean-to to right end. Interior: exposed framing. Evidence for service doors to left end of hall, and for stairs to right end bay. Sans-purlin roof. Substantial remains of timber and plaster stack with stone base, backing on to cross-passage. Cambered chamfered bressumer to fireplace, and chamfered stone jambs with broach stops. Moulded axial beam to inserted floor. Formerly known as White Cottage.
Listing NGR: TQ7978953699
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433389
- 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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