Church House
CHURCH HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263251
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church House
- Statutory Address:
- CHURCH HOUSE, CHURCH STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1263251
- Date first listed:
- 23-May-1967
- List Entry Name:
- Church House
- Statutory Address 1:
- CHURCH HOUSE, CHURCH 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:
- CHURCH HOUSE, CHURCH 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 75715 52048
Details
CHURCH STREET TO 7552 LOOSE (South Side) 6/181 Church House 23.5.67 GV II
House, possibly formerly vicarage, latterly house and shop (by 1747), now house. Late C15 or early C16 with C17 and early and later C19 alterations. Restored gradually during 1970s and 1980s. Timber framed with daub infilling. Plain tile roof. Open hall of one timber- framed bay built at right-angles to street, with storeyed bay to right (south) end. Longer storeyed bay to left end, formerly subdivided into 2 rooms, and incorporating cross-passage and stairs. Integral rear return wing to left of 2 unequal-length timber-framed bays, that to east end reconstructed in late C20. 2 storeys on stone plinth. Lower part of ground floor underbuilt with red and grey brick. Rest close-studded. Higher midrail to hall. Tension brace to right end of each storeyed bay of main range. Underbuilt jetty to right gable end. Steeply- pitched hipped roof, left hip returning. Projecting rear stack to hall in short stone lean-to. Slender projecting brick gable end stack to right. Multiple brick ridge stack to rear of storeyed left end bay, between bay and wing. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements; one 4-light to left, one 3-light to right, small 2-light to hall, and first- floor remains of 2-storey C16 or early C17 close-studded rectangular bay towards centre of hall, rising through eaves with C19 4-light casement and hipped roof. Blocked door to right end of left bay, and half-glazed shop door with narrow margin lights towards front of left gable end. Sun Insurance Plaque. Interior: exposed framing. Moulded right end-of- hall beam. Plain crown-posts with 2 foot-braces; to ends of hall, to left end bay, and to junction of left bay and left wing. Combed daub to front wall of hall and left end bay. C17 stone fireplace with plain jambs to rear of hall, possibly replacing left end smoke bay, and formerly with further stone fireplace to east. Early-to-mid C17 stone fireplace to rear of left bay, with chamfer-stopped jambs. Small blocked window to first floor of left gable end. Hand-built later C20 doors, windows and fittings.
Listing NGR: TQ7571552048
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 432836
- 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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