Peartree Cottage
PEARTREE COTTAGE, 1 AND 2, PICKERING STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263168
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Peartree Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- PEARTREE COTTAGE, 1 AND 2, PICKERING STREET
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- Date:
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- Reference:
- IOE01/08537/37
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263168
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Peartree Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- PEARTREE COTTAGE, 1 AND 2, PICKERING 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:
- PEARTREE COTTAGE, 1 AND 2, PICKERING STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Loose
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 76545 52484
Details
PICKERING STREET TQ 75 SE LOOSE (East Side) 3/199 Nos. 1 and 2 23.5.67 Peartree Cottage II
Farmhouse, now house pair. C15, with C17 and C18 alterations. Timber framed. First floor of cross-wing tile-hung, rest rendered. Plain tile roof. Open hall of 2 roughly equal-length bays, with left cross- wing projecting slightly to rear. Storeyed right end bay, also projecting to rear, and with short C20 single-bay addition to right. Cross-wing 2 storeys, main range 1½ storeys. Rendered plinth. Wing jettied, jetty returning to left on plain dragon post. Higher eaves to wing than to main range, with steeply-pitched hipped roof. Multiple brick ridge stack towards left end of hall, and ridge stack to right end of right storeyed bay. Pair of conjoined eaves dormers, to right hall bay and right storeyed bay, with eaves higher than eaves of cross-wing. Jettied gable to each dormer, with moulded bressumer, shaped brackets and carved bargeboards. Irregular fenestration of four windows; one 3-light casement to first floor of wing, one small hipped 2-light eaves dormer to left hall bay and one 16-pane sash to each large dormer (above hall wall-plate). No windows to right addition. 6-light mullioned window to ground floor of wing, 3-light casement to left end of hall, and one 16-pane sash beneath each dormer. Ribbed door to No. 1 under left stack and to No. 2 under right stack. Painted stone lean-to to left. Rear lean-to between wings. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing. Late C16 or early C17 stone stack with chamfered jambs, to left end of hall. Blocked cross-passage behind stack. Crown-post roof.
Listing NGR: TQ7654552484
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 433038
- 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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