Bower Lodge
BOWER LODGE, 10, LOWER FANT ROAD
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266215
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bower Lodge
- Statutory Address:
- BOWER LODGE, 10, LOWER FANT ROAD
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1266215
- Date first listed:
- 28-Jan-1987
- List Entry Name:
- Bower Lodge
- Statutory Address 1:
- BOWER LODGE, 10, LOWER FANT ROAD
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:
- BOWER LODGE, 10, LOWER FANT ROAD
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 75191 54998
Details
LOWER FANT ROAD 1. 5278 No. 10 (Bower Lodge) TQ 75 SE 11/388 II
2. House. Probable C17 3 bay lobby entrance house altered and extended early to mid C19 (before 1848 as auction catalogue refers to the property as "ornamentally built.¨) T shaped building of one storey and attic to front and 2 storeys to rear range. Front range rendered with incised ???es to imitate masonry on stone plinth. Peg tiled roof with end converted chimney stacks. Attic storey has 4 C19 gabled dormers with curved wooden bargeboards with pendants and finials. Ground floor has 3 windows, left side 4 light C20 casement with both top and bottom opening, right side sliding sashes with wooden jalousies. Off central C19 gabled porch with fretted bargeboards, wooden pendant and finial and wooden brackets with trefoil design above entrance. Porch has wooden seat and 4 panelled door, the top 2 panels glazed with frosted glass, and triangular fanlight above. End chimneystacks are square, the left hand with 2, the right hand with\ C19 octagonal chimney stack. C20 conservatory, on right hand side. T wing is rendered with lines to imitate masonry, slate roof and C19 casements. 2 storeys, 2 parallel ranges. One side has early C19 6 flush panelled door in wooden architrave and large iron door knocker. Other side has one sash to each floor with vertical glazing bays only. 2 chimney stacks with early C19 octagonal chimney pots. Interior has boxed in spine beam and plank door. Left end fireplace appears to be of C18 brickwork. Attached to the older range of the house is a one storey early C19 outbuilding probably originally a washhouse of red brick and ragstone with peg tiled roof.
Listing NGR: TQ7519155001
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422239
- 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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