1 AND 3, SWAN STREET
1 AND 3, SWAN STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292827
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1952
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 3, SWAN STREET
- Statutory Address:
- 1 AND 3, SWAN STREET
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1292827
- Date first listed:
- 01-Aug-1952
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 30-Nov-1993
- List Entry Name:
- 1 AND 3, SWAN STREET
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1 AND 3, SWAN 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:
- 1 AND 3, SWAN STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Tonbridge and Malling (District Authority)
- Parish:
- West Malling
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 68054 57827
Details
WEST MALLING
TQ6857 SWAN STREET 1156-0/3/135 Nos.1 AND 3 01/08/52 (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET Post Office (Sorting office only) (Formerly Listed as: HIGH STREET Shop premises occupied by E.Baldock & Son)
GV II
Shop. Late medieval building, underbuilt, refronted and a mansard roof added in early C19. Exterior has ground floor of painted brick and stuccoed 1st floor with incised lines to imitate masonry. Stuccoed plinth. Slate mansard roof. 2 storeys and attics; 3 windows. attic storey has 3 casements. 1st floor has 3 16-pane sashes and further sash to High Street elevation. Swan Street elevation has 3 plain shopfronts with wooden pilasters and brackets and large fascia. High Street elevation has 2 similar shopfronts and 4-panelled door, now blocked. Interior has dragon beams, showing that it was once jettied and door heads on the 1st floor. Deeds show ownership from the sale of the house about 1620. The property was indentured to many notable people including 2 Grooms to the Bedchamber of Charles II and Judge Twisden who tried the regicides. (Crozier P: Survey of the buildings in West Malling: ITEM 8).
Listing NGR: TQ6805857828
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 392447
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Crozier, P, Survey of Buildings in West Malling, ()
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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