Court Lodge Cottage
4, 5, 6 AND 7, CHURCH SQUARE
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299358
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Court Lodge Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- 4, 5, 6 AND 7, CHURCH SQUARE
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1299358
- Date first listed:
- 26-Apr-1968
- List Entry Name:
- Court Lodge Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- 4, 5, 6 AND 7, CHURCH SQUARE
- Statutory Address 2:
- COURT LODGE COTTAGE, CHURCH SQUARE
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:
- 4, 5, 6 AND 7, CHURCH SQUARE
- Statutory Address:
- COURT LODGE COTTAGE, CHURCH SQUARE
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Kent
- District:
- Maidstone (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Lenham
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 89850 52119
Details
LENHAM CHURCH SQUARE TQ 8952 (south side)
10/143 Nos. 4,5,6 and 7 and Court Lodge Cottage 26.4.68. GV II
House row. Early C15, with some re-use of earlier materials and with later alterations. Timber-framed core. Front elevation patched red brick with occasional grey brick headers. Left gable end flint on ground floor, ragstone on first floor, with tile- hanging above that. Stone, possibly C19,returns for few feet round front elevation on both floors. Plain tile roof. 1 1/2 storeys on high stone plinth. Roof half-hipped to left and gabled to right at junction with slightly lower right end of No. 6. Multiple brick ridge stack towards left end, large plain brick stack in front slope of roof off-centre to right, and brick stack in rear slope of roof of lower end of No. 6. No. 4, to left, has 2 hipped through dormers, one on either side of stack, No. 5 has a large 2-storey rectangular bay with hipped roof immediately left of the large plain stack, and No. 6 has 2 hipped eaves dormers to left and a third in lower right end section. Door to No. 4 beneath stack, with 4 fielded panels, semi-circular fanlight and flat bracketted hood. Door to No. 5 to left of 2-storey bay, 1/2-glazed, with flat bracketted hood. Panelled door to No. 6 with a narrow window to either side; small semi-circular rubbed brick arch over door joined by short band to smaller arches over side windows, forming symmetrical composition. Left gable end has, towards front, a tall stone jamb of arch to former Medieval gateway to Court Lodge with small stone door with triangular head behind it. Rear lean-to to No. 4, short rear wing to No. 5 Interior: exposed beams and posts and crown-post roof. Interior partly inspected.
Listing NGR: TQ8985052119
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 173878
- 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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