Little Thatch
LITTLE THATCH, WOOLAGE GREEN
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273443
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Little Thatch
- Statutory Address:
- LITTLE THATCH, WOOLAGE GREEN
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1273443
- Date first listed:
- 20-Dec-1989
- List Entry Name:
- Little Thatch
- Statutory Address 1:
- LITTLE THATCH, WOOLAGE 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:
- LITTLE THATCH, WOOLAGE GREEN
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Canterbury (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Womenswold
- National Grid Reference:
- TR 23808 49359
Details
CANTERBURY WOOLAGE GREEN
TR 24 NW
18/726 Little Thatch
- II
Detached house. C16 and C18. Timber framing and brick and flint, with plaster and weatherboarding, roofs of thatch and clay tiles. West front: brick plinth, ground floor plastered, weatherboarding above; C19 windows to ground and first floor in central two-storey section; entrance in brick lean-to to south; isolated archway in brick and random rubble runs westwards from northern extension, probably C19 but incorporating earlier partly legible inscription 'RD --4(?)8'. Half-hipped roof of thatch. East front: ground floor has C18 brickwork with C20 insertions. Weatherboarding to first floor; axial chimney stack of C18 brickwork with offsets; scattered fenstration; single bay extension at north end under catslide roof forms part of northern single storey extension of c.1970. The interior reveals the remaining C16 timber-framed north wall with main posts, tension braces. Mid-rail and (presumably) original entrance. The present living room which occupies the ground floor of the original building, is open apart from enclosed staircase; it is timber-framed in C18 pine and has an open hearth with bressummer, also C18. The original C16 jowled main post, tie beam and wall plate can be seen in an upstairs bedroom at the north-east corner of the building.
Listing NGR: TR1571957759
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 445006
- 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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