CONGELOW COTTAGES

CONGELOW COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, BENOVER ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320310
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: CONGELOW COTTAGES
Statutory Address:: CONGELOW COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, BENOVER ROAD

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1320310
Date first listed:: 14-Oct-1987
List Entry Name:: CONGELOW COTTAGES
Statutory Address 1:: CONGELOW COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, BENOVER ROAD

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: CONGELOW COTTAGES, 1, 2 AND 3, BENOVER ROAD

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

County:: Kent
District:: Maidstone (District Authority)
Parish:: Yalding
National Grid Reference:: TQ 69853 49361

Details

YALDING BENOVER ROAD TQ 6949 (north-east side) 7/43 Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Congelow Cottages GV II

House, now cottages. Early C17, with later C17 or C18, and C20, alterations. Ground floor painted brick, first floor rendered. Plain tile roof. Main range of 5 timber-framed bays with (possibly slightly later) rear wing to left, of 2 timber-framed bays and stack bay. 2 storeys on brick plinth. Rendered roll-moulded corbel under eaves to right end. Half-hipped roof. Multiple red and grey brick ridge stack to wing, set towards junction with main range. Slender projecting rear brick stack towards right end of main range. Irregular fenestration of 4 casements; one single-light under eaves to left end, one two-light just above midrail, one two-light under eaves towards centre and another under eaves towards right end. Two two-light casements only to ground floor, set towards right end. Panelled door with two top lights and flat hood, up two steps towards centre. Rendered timber- framed two-storey rear return wing to left, eaves similar height to main range, ridge higher; roof hipped down to main range to front and gabled to rear. Long right side of wing has exposed first-floor post and stud, one two- light casement under stack, and one three-light towards gable end with boarded ground-floor door under. Rendered single-storey addition to rear gable of wing, with gabled plain-tile roof and gable end stack. Interior: only partly inspected. Exposed framing to right side of central bay and to two right end bays of main range. Right side of central bay has two chamfered axial beams on ground floor, straight rear doorhead opposite front door, and two other similar doorheads towards centre of right end wall, leading into front and rear right end rooms. Front and rear right end rooms each two bays long, with central cross beam. On first floor, these two bays apparently formed one large room with chamfered cross and axial beams. Exposed framing of relatively heavy scantling to rear wing. Gunstock-jowled posts to main range, cut jowls to rear wing. Clasped-purlin roof to main range with diminishing principal rafters, deep cambered collars, and curved windbraces. Staggered butt purlin roof to wing. Assorted rafters round stack. Edge-halved scarf joint to front wall-plate of main range. Formerly known as Forge Cottage.

Listing NGR: TQ6986549362

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Legacy System number:: 174842
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.