Castle Cottages and Store Building at East End
CASTLE COTTAGES AND STORE BUILDING AT EAST END, 1-3, THE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1273146
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Cottages and Store Building at East End
- Statutory Address:
- CASTLE COTTAGES AND STORE BUILDING AT EAST END, 1-3, THE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1273146
- Date first listed:
- 10-Sept-1954
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 16-Jan-1975
- List Entry Name:
- Castle Cottages and Store Building at East End
- Statutory Address 1:
- CASTLE COTTAGES AND STORE BUILDING AT EAST END, 1-3, THE GREEN
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:
- CASTLE COTTAGES AND STORE BUILDING AT EAST END, 1-3, THE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Sevenoaks (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Otford
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 52830 59199
Details
1. 5280 OTFORD OTFORD The Green TQ 5259 21/747 Nos I to 3 (consec) l0.9.54 (Castle Cottages) and Store Building at East end (Formerly listed as Palace of the Archbishop of Canterbury) II* GV 2. These buildings are part of the only surviving range of the palace built by Archbishop Warham in the early Cl6. The original walls of red brick with blue headers and stone quoins and dressings. High galleted rubble plinth with moulded stone coping. Windows of 1 or 2 Tudor-arched lights, mostly under hoodmoulds. The 2-storey cottages, of 1 or 2 windows' width, have 1st floors rebuilt in brick and rebuilt tiled roofs. Modern casement windows and modern doors, that of No 2 under original, 4-centred stone arch. Storage building (AM) (formerly the chapel) also has renewed tiled roof hipped over half-octagonal ends. 2 doors under moulded stone arches, 1 3-centred and one 4-centred. At west end of the range stands the roofless tower of the palace, now a scheduled AM but visually part of the group.
[All the buildings in The Green form a group.]
Listing NGR: TQ5283059199
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 446061
- 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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