Moretons, Great Moretons and Moretons End

GREAT MORETONS, HIGH STREET

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1272553
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1954
List Entry Name:
Moretons, Great Moretons and Moretons End
Statutory Address:
GREAT MORETONS, HIGH STREET
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1272553
Date first listed:
10-Sept-1954
Date of most recent amendment:
16-Jan-1975
List Entry Name:
Moretons, Great Moretons and Moretons End
Statutory Address 1:
GREAT MORETONS, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 2:
MORETONS END, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address 3:
MORETONS, HIGH STREET

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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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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
GREAT MORETONS, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
MORETONS END, HIGH STREET
Statutory Address:
MORETONS, HIGH STREET

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

County:
Kent
District:
Sevenoaks (District Authority)
Parish:
Westerham
National Grid Reference:
TQ4415853704

Details

1.
5280
TQ 4453
36/1384
-
10.9.54
10.9.54

WESTERHAM
WESTERHAM
High Street
(North Side)
Moretons. Great Moretons. Moretons End.

II

2.
Originally one house, though built at different periods. Now divided into 3.
Moretons. 2-storey, 2 window, mid-late C19 building. 2 parallel high pitched
slated roofs with stone coped Dutch gable ends to road. Subsidiary half-gable
at left over entrance. Red brick with blue headers. Stone quoins and high
plinth. Casement windows, ground floor long ones with stone alternating block
jambs and flat arches with raised keystones. Modern Georgian entrance. Red
brick wall with dentil cornice links with Great Moretons. Early C18, 2 storeys,
5 windows. Inside may be older. High pitched tiled roof half-hipped at left,
with 3 pedimented dormers, compound ridge stack and right end chimney. Heavy
moulded wood parapet cornice rests on end pilasters of blue headers with red
brick quoins. Front wall also of headers, mostly blue, with red brick dressings
including 1st floor band and flat, gauged window arches. C19 sash windows with
vertical bars. At right a C19 2-storey canted bay. Central prostyle Roman
Doric porch, with mutule cornice, now enclosed. Rear elevation shows complete
parallel span, similar material but C19 appearance. Moretons End on left return
from Great Moretons. Early C19 half- octagonal bay under low pitched, hipped,
slated roof. Wall of blue headers with red brick dressings. 1st floor one
centre sash window with glazing bars. Right window blocked. Ground floor 2
replaced sash windows with bars, and door at left. Left end covered by linking
wall to modern 2-storey, 2-window projecting extension of red brick with re-used
C19 casements.

Listing NGR: TQ4415853704

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
448695
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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